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@Rainmaker1973 For a quick moment, imagine you were born in 1900. When you are 14, World War I starts, and ends on your 18th birthday with 22 million people killed. Later in the year, a Spanish Flu epidemic hits the planet and runs until you are 20. Fifty million people die from it in those two
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@Rainmaker1973 Clinging to her mattress through violent storms, supported with food and necessities by a ground crew, she stayed two years and eight days. They don't come hard like this anymore. A real hero in my books 💯
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@historyinmemes Nuclear chemist Galen Winsor ate uranium live on TV to prove that the fear of radiation was exaggerated ☢️ He worked at power plants associated with the Manhattan Project. (And died at the age of 82)
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@fasc1nate August 15th, 1961 The 19-year-old East German border guard Konrad Schumann is tasked with patrolling the construction site of the Berlin Wall. He realizes that this could be his last chance to escape communism and jumps to freedom in Western Berlin People always flee communism
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@creepydotorg A 70-year-old man rows solo across the Atlantic unassisted in a journey that lasted 56 days, 2 hours, and 41 minutes
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@fasc1nate Some pretty unusual causes of death from London (1632): ‘Suddenly’ 🤷…62’ ‘Kil’d by several accidents’ 🤦‍♂️…46 ‘Kings Evil 🤴…38 ‘Piles’ 😳…1 What’s your pick of the bunch?
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@creepydotorg A good question to ask is why did they remove giants from our history when they were common and coexisted amongst people.
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@creepydotorg DID YOU KNOW? 🤔 Each king depicted on the playing cards represents a real historical figure. Spades - King David, clubs - Alexander the Great, hearts - Charlemagne, and diamonds - Julius Caesar.
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@historyinmemes The helmet of Sultan Mehmet Fatih, who conquered Constantinople at the age of 21, ending the Byzantine Empire.
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@fasc1nate A list that shows the weekly deaths in London in 1665 There’s one frightened to death 😳
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@creepydotorg Maybe this one 😂😂😂
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@historyinmemes Fun fact: Since Interstellar was released in 2014, only 53 minutes and 6 seconds have passed on Miller's planet.
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@fasc1nate Milton Hershey’s original $60 million gift in 1918, is now worth $14 billion and produces over $300 million in annual income [2016 Form 1990] much of which goes back into the Hershey community. It is one of the greatest examples of effective capitalism in American history
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@historyinmemes This is exactly why Dagestan is producing so many quality athletes Meanwhile in west, Boys wearing masks and skirts.. 👀
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@fasc1nate Here's Eddie Vedder diving off a fucking CAMERA CRANE into the crowd during pearl jam’s set at pinkpop 1992
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@Rainmaker1973 "A small leap from a frog, but a great jump for frog-kind" His last words Presumably 🐸
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@fasc1nate A soldier from East Berlin passes a flower through the Berlin Wall in 1989. The Berlin Wall, not just one but two concrete walls, spanned 27 miles and featured a "death strip" with watchtowers, anti-vehicle trenches, guard dog areas, floodlights, and trip-wire machine guns.
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@Rainmaker1973 The male pufferfish tries to impress potential mates with his masterpiece.
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@gunsnrosesgirl3 Tiny octopus swims up to this woman to gives her little handshakes — then waits for her every day to bring him gifts 😍
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@Rainmaker1973 Avenue of the Baobabs, Morondava, Madagascar 🇲🇬 The centuries old trees lining both sides of this dirt road may become Madagascar's first natural monument. These giant, dry season-deciduous trees (members of the Mallow family), many of which are more than 800 years old with
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@creepydotorg One day, astronaut Mark Kelly smuggled a gorilla suit on board the ISS without informing anyone😂
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@FullyPlanted @historyinmemes There or thereabouts.. 😂
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@creepydotorg Today we have a little debunking of the myth of "giants who never existed" I present you the 18th century painting "View of the Arch of Constantine with the Colosseum" by Italian painter Giovanni Antonio Canali, also known as Canaletto (left photo). And here on the right is a
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@Rainmaker1973 Bruce Lee plays ping pong with nunchucks! Speed and technique are impressive It blew up the world at the time. To this day, no one can repeat this trick.
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@Morbidful A picture of George Bush meeting with Osama bin Laden before 9/11 has been going viral. Of course, the CIA says this picture is fake.
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@Rainmaker1973 Bruce Lee's morning workout plan in 1965.
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@creepydotorg The photo shows an artifact that looks like a giant pan, found on August 31, 2021 by accident during road construction in Indonesia. The bottom photo shows image from the walls of Karma-vibhanga in Borobudur Temple. The full panel consists of 3 fields. The middle panel depicts
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@historyinmemes Shark Tank is actually just a really smart way to get people to watch short infomercials about products we otherwise wouldn’t.
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@fasc1nate Vladimir Putin says he didn't mean to scare Angela Merkel by bringing his dog to a meeting. 😅
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@Rainmaker1973 Madagascar is not for beginners 😁 🐢 In the forests of Madagascar there are turtles with such fashionable colors Apparently Balenciaga has reached into the animal world.
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@historyinmemes The end of a 600-year Ottoman Empire, Last Sultan Vahideddin leaves Istanbul. November 17, 1922
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@Morbidful At time 2:03 seconds of the video, the engineer of the Twin Towers, approximately 20 years before the event of 9/11, states that if a plane crashes into the Twin Towers, it cannot do any damage because it has a structure that can withstand 13 thousand tons , while the plane
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@historyinmemes They will never trust that ant ever again. Funny Prank with ants. 😁
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@Rainmaker1973 Yes, but I think this prediction is legendary 😳‼️ This newspaper headline is from June 8, 1918.
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Wow @ashirazeemgill your lines are turning into revolutionary slogan
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کیسا عاشق ہے ترے نام پہ قرباں ہے مگر تیری ہر بات سے انجان ہوا پھرتا ہے شب کو شیطان بھی مانگے ہے پناہیں جس سے صبح وہ صاحب ایمان ہوا پھرتا ہے جانے کب کون کسے مار دے کافر کہہ کے شہر کا شہر مسلمان ہوا پھرتا ہے   #امپورٹڈ_حکومت_نامنظور #الیکشن_کراو_پاکستان_بچاو
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@creepydotorg One of Hitler's doppelgangers was his driver (he is to Hitler's left in the photo). He often spoke on Hitler's behalf at various events.
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@fasc1nate Reminded me of this 🎯💯
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@fasc1nate How does the Titanic compare to a modern cruise ship, the fatal iceberg, a plane, and a bus in size?
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@interesting_aIl Is this for real? Do the winners keep them? Are they actual gold?
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@MAstronomers 😳 Do you still believe the moon landing was real? The only thing NASA had ever landed is into your imagination.
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@gunsnrosesgirl3 The first oranges were not orange color! The first oranges came from Southeast Asia. They were a hybrid of tangerine and pomelo and were green color! In warmer regions such as Vietnam and Thailand, oranges are still green during the full ripening period.
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@HumansNoContext In 2019, a Man robbed almost $8,000 from 2 banks in Israel while carrying an avocado that looked like a grenade. 😁
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@Rainmaker1973 🌊 The pufferfish has an amazing courtship ritual. The males use their fins to draw these circles with patterns. Then, they decorate them with shells and pebbles. 🌀 💞 If the female likes the landscape, she will respond to the male's advances. 🏞️ Besides its aesthetic appeal,
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@gunsnrosesgirl3 Easy way to put an alarm off. For good 😁
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@Morbidful The video of the Beirut port explosion that has hit me the hardest. A first hand perspective of what it felt like that has been circulating on social media.
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@creepydotorg Don't say it. Don't say it. Don't say it
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@Rainmaker1973 Stroboscopic effect The strobe light flashes a little faster than the frequency of the drops, so the drops seem to go up. If the flashing frequency were the same as the droplet frequency, the droplets would be frozen in the air in one place.
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@RayCoinkeeper @historyinmemes Ingesting uranium 😂
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@ThebestFigen The accuracy 🎯
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@historyinmemes Yup i guess this is real! our refrigerator from 1980 is still in use to this day.
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@Rainmaker1973 Chariots of the gods Indian temples contain huge chariots made of granite, some so large that they can be seen from space. They could have used unusual technologies to move around, arousing the interest of researchers.
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@Rainmaker1973 Mount Roraima is the highest of the Pakaraima chain of tepuis (table-top mountain) or plateaux in South America. It is located at the junction of Venezuela 🇻🇪 Brazil 🇧🇷 and Guyana 🇬🇾 The name of Mount Roraima came from the native Pemon people. Roroi in the Pemon language means
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@historyinmemes Presidents net-worth before & after leaving office: ▪️Carter $2.3M > $10.7M ▪️Nixon $2M > $15M ▪️Reagan $10.6M > $15.4M ▪️Clinton $1.3M > $241.5M ▪️George H.W. Bush $4M > $23M ▪️George W Bush $20M > $40M ▪️Obama $1.3M > $70M ▪️Donald Trump $3B < $2.3B This is telling you all
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@historyinmemes Nikola Tesla described the creation of the modern smartphone in a 1926 interview with John B. Kennedy. This man was basically science's Nostradamus, and he was also a clairvoyant, predicting globalized wireless communication nearly eight decades before it came to fruition.
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@Rainmaker1973 Best one you'll see all day long.. 😀
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@fasc1nate The Titanic in comparison with the World’s Largest Cruise Ship the “Oasis Class” of which there’s 4. 🚢 Titanic: Length - 269m Beam - 28m Weight - 46,328t Passengers - 2,435 Crew - 892 🛳 Oasis Class: Length - 362m Beam - 48m Weight - 228,081t Passengers - 6,680 Crew - 2,200
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@historyinmemes Police confront Mike Tyson after he bit off a piece of Evander Holyfield's ear. Photo from 1996
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@Rainmaker1973 This is how confusing perspective messes with your mind First you see a man riding a cat, and then..
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@interesting_aIl On the island of Saint Martin in the Caribbean there is a beach so close to the airport that planes sometimes fly 10 meters above the heads of tourists.
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@fasc1nate The beginning of the erection of the Berlin Wall. Germany, 1961.
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@Rainmaker1973 A snail lays eggs Pregnancy is different for each female. On average, they break open after 1-2 months.
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@interesting_aIl Robert Hansen, an FBI agent, was assigned the task of uncovering a spy within the FBI, but he turned out to be the spy himself. He had been secretly working as a double agent, passing classified information to the Soviet Union and later Russia, from 1979 until his arrest in 2001.
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@LuisCal150 @historyinmemes Elements above 82 are all radioactive, regardless of the isotope..
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@gunsnrosesgirl3 Mother of all tricks.. Holy Cow 😳
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Here's a clip of Taliban treating an actual bomb as a fire cracker 🙄💣😂 #GhaniTheRealSpoiler
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@kirawontmiss Sunbathing lemurs
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@creepydotorg The Ogden Standard-Examiner of November 10, 1929, published an interview with Ralph Glidden, an archaeologist who had been excavating around California's Catalina Island for about 10 years: "Irrefutable proof that light-skinned, fair-haired men of great stature lived on Catalina
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@ManyTechIdeas @Rainmaker1973 Just a tree? No sir! Look at the broader spectrum. It was for a greater cause i.e. To spread awareness
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@interesting_aIl The process of staging a fight by Jackie Chan in the movie "Rush Hour".
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@kirawontmiss Demanding lemur. 😂😂😂
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@historyinmemes Fall 1999. In 18 years, Jeff Bezos, pictured here, will be the richest man in the world.
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@Morbidful "We were not foolish enough to try to make a currency backed by gold of which we had none, but for every mark that was issued we required the equivalent of a mark's worth of work done or goods produced. .. .we laugh at the time our national financiers held the view that the value
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@ExcclesiaLatin @historyinmemes Every country teaches its citizens to think what they believe. I bet you would have a different opinion about them if you were born in Turkey..Think about that for a moment maybe?
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@sarahcpr No one and I repeat no one can voice over Donald J. Trump better than you. Not even Donald J. Trump. Thanks for existing 😁
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@Rainmaker1973 Mere speaking in this language sounds like rap 😂
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@MAstronomers You ever wondered why do "astronauts" have a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame? Apparently it's for the best acting and performance. The Moon landing was nothing but one giant advertising charade for "Fossil fuels", made in the hollywood studio. 😁
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@Rainmaker1973 🐧 Just penguins holding hands on the beach. It could have been us, but you have to work again.
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@MAstronomers Footage on the moon from 1972 versus 2023
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@PhysInHistory Library of Sakya Monastery - Tibet The library was found sealed in a 60-meter-long and 10-meter-high wall in Tibet containing 84,000 secret manuscripts (books), including 10,000 years of human history. Most of them will turn out to be Buddhist scriptures, they can also include
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@fasc1nate The ship "Queen Elizabeth" arrives in the port of New York. On board are soldiers returning from World War II, 1945.
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@Rainmaker1973 The life cycle of coffee ☕
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@fasc1nate Last photo of the Titanic, taken three days before striking an iceberg and sinking. 1912.
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@historyinmemes Diego Maradona, 1980s 😍
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@gunsnrosesgirl3 What does the homework for those who learn calligraphy look like 😍
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@Rainmaker1973 During World War 2, the British produced the Welbike, which was the smallest motorcylce to ever be used by the British military.
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@gunnarflygt @historyinmemes His parents foresaw what he would amount to 😅
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@gunsnrosesgirl3 Chinese craftsman Cai Guoqiang has invented and successfully launched an unusual fireworks display. The pyrotechnician named it "Stairway to Heaven", which is exactly how his invention looks like: fire stairs going up into the night sky. The Stairway to Heaven" firework was
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@Rainmaker1973 Rakotzbrücke in different seasons 😍 Hidden in Kromlau’s Azalea and Rhododendron Park, just a two-hour drive southeast of Berlin, Rakotzsee (Rakotz Lake) is home to one of the most fairytale-like scenes you’ll ever see: Rakotzbrücke, a 19th-century stone bridge that creates a
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@fasc1nate A mosaic from the Roman Empire of two thousand years ago, washed by the waters of the Euphrates in what is now Turkey.
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@historyinmemes 24 years ago, An unmasked Ray Mysterio gets his revenge from Kevin Nash 🤼
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@johnlynch1973 @Morbidful Or maybe "they" lied to..
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@Rainmaker1973 Looks like the person on this billboard had a rough day at work
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@stats_feed They laughed at him because he lived in Saudi Arabia but when he mentioned zero tax and zero crime rate they were stunned.. 😱😱😱
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@historyinmemes This is NOT a mugshot that says, "I'm so sorry and I'll never do it again." 😂
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@fasc1nate In 2007 Putin met with Angela Merkel at his palace in Sochi. He brought his dog to meet Merkel who is afraid of dogs (bit by one in 90s, I think). He later said he didn’t know… lmao look at his smirk
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@HasbulIah Say, "O disbelievers, ۝ I do not worship what you worship. ۝ Nor are you worshippers of what I worship. ۝ Nor will I be a worshipper of what you worship. ۝ Nor will you be worshippers of what I worship. ۝ For you is your religion, and for me is my religion. Al-Kafirun
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@historyinmemes ICONIC 😍 Diego Maradona against six Belgium players at the World Cup, June 13, 1982.
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