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Powaqoatse posted:it's called the Mandela Effect & the old people have a website for it: http://mandelaeffect.com I mean I guess there's always room for another batshit insane conspiracy theory in my head but the dude literally met with multiple presidents and has been filmed a bunch of times post prison. It's just so stupid that you might as well give up and pretend everyone isn't who they appear to be
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Solice Kirsk posted:OH! I love this one too! I was just talking about it the other day! The Phantom time poo poo is hilarious bullshit but if you're trying to counter it with something one of the Plinys said in your wikipedia article you might as well just admit you're attacking bullshit with other bullshit
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Kassad posted:But it's very easy to verify that a solar eclipse actually happened when Pliny (in this case) said it did. NASA's got that eclipse dated very accurately. Goddamnit science
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So did Tintin have time travelling abilities or is this one of those central/northern European things where it's cool to portray the rest of the world as stereotypical savages in the 20th century
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Alhazred posted:It's not always easy to distinguish real historical facts from a G.I.Joe cartoon: I don't care the practicality of it, seeing a swarm of those things headed towards you would be a def poo poo your pants moment
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Jan 25, 2017 21:28
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Walt Whitman and Oscar Wilde used to make out on the reg 
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Arcsquad12 posted:Pretty sure that was part of Caesar's memoirs, so take it with a grain of salt. He liked to exaggerate things, but nobody else witnessed the events or wrote any of it down, so who's to say if it is true or not? It's been brought up several times before but this is literally all of roman or Greek or Chinese etc history if it's only mentioned by one source. People tend to bandy around personal accounts or outright political slander as gospel from those time periods without considering they're essentially the ancient equivalent of the National Enquirer
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Feb 6, 2017 00:07
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Suspect Bucket posted:Morty! Morty, you gotta :beeellch: strangle that manatee, Morty. You gotta kill it real good. We're not getting through that lightning nebula without it. Oh jeez, Rick. I dunno that I can stab this thing with this pugio! It's at least a few hundred years outdated from the gladius
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Feb 11, 2017 13:01
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Powaqoatse posted:That's the Finnish sniper bear that killed half of nazi Russia with a crossbow right? He also hosed Catherine the Great to death after she rode him through town naked to warn about the British
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Feb 12, 2017 11:41
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Ibn Fadlan's full of crap, I asked for his journal/memoirs about interacting with vikings etc in the 8th century and he's talking about finding corpses of giants and snakes as big as trees and stuff. Now I'm not even sure I can believe the standard minutae of middle eastern/viking life from around that time period
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Feb 19, 2017 01:13
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Powaqoatse posted:Fwiw he was right about us being gross as hell. I'm still gonna finish it but between that stuff and the "everyone is somehow fascinated by Islam and is weirdly in love with it because it's the correct religion" stuff every 10 or so pages it's more of a slog than I was expecting
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Feb 19, 2017 01:42
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Powaqoatse posted:Haha, that looks like it's supposed to be a sexy lady bathing suit. I wonder what the reasoning for that cut was. Lmao loving that you obviously didn't need to be naked but most dudes decided to anyway. Kudos
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How exactly woukd you go about selling uranium that isn't through a crazy black market
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Ensign Expendable posted:Pushkin, a great Russian poet, hid in a closet in his childhood to observe the visit of a poet he admired. He expected the poet to say something profound, but the poet just asked where the bathroom was. The dude literally just came over to use their bathroom? How long was this visit planned in advance?
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Alhazred posted:And migration was only accepted as fact when someone in Africa tried to kill a stork: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pfeilstorch So they knew how to identify an arrow from central Africa but had no idea storks could go there?
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Drunk Nerds posted:Questionable etymology itt Welcome to probably around half of the thread
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So basically it evened out and everything's good
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value-brand cereal posted:I think this is neat! Seawater is the secret to long-lasting Roman concrete. Well, not sea water. It's a little more complicated than that. Why is Pliny the Elder, one of the most full of poo poo historians ever, being used as a source about anything scientific
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System Metternich posted:Today I learned that when you see a coat of arms with a heraldic animal unusually wearing a helmet or something similar it means that the bearer of that coat of arms hosed up sometime during the past and received that “covering“ or “cloaking“ (German Verkappung) as punishment. I thought different colors and styles of helmets regardless of where they're placed just denoted rank or social position? Like an opened helmet would mean elite royalty and closed were lower royalty or something like that
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Tiny Brontosaurus posted:Oh definitely, it's insane how easily they'll give out gently caress-your-life-up drugs for minor pains. I got OxyContin for an ear ache a few years back which was cool cause although I actually did have an ear infection I was just trying to use it to get drugs
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Red Bones posted:Leaf Insects are a family of insects that can be found throughout south Asia and Australasia: That is awesome. Leaf insects are so cool
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Zesty Mordant posted:Interesting, too, that he doesn't even connect it with being an insect at all. It's just An Alive Leaf. People were really loving dumb in the past but I'd bet he was just exaggerating like most old school explorers to make his experience seem more impressive
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Jul 18, 2017 20:47
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Shifty Nipples posted:The person I quoted just sounded like they were following the idea that people in the past were stupid and became less stupid over time when in reality we know more than we did in the past which has nothing to do with intelligence. It was a joke post where I was exaggerating our ancestors stupidity for comedic effect
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Shifty Nipples posted:Trump's face makes me angry, that's my excuse. I didn't buy this dumb rear end thing for myself but this is my life now I guess
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FreudianSlippers posted:They also thought ants were literally demons and while I don't agree with their rather unfavorable view of cats I think they might have a point on the ant front. I wasn't expecting Zoroastrian kids to all look lilly white tbh
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What am I expected to sacrifice to this vehicle
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Nessus posted:Aren't black cats good luck in England? England hates orange cats for whatever weird rear end reason
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stab posted:Nothing it's a mazda. I actually drive a Mazda 3 is this a real thing 
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Phy posted:The first gen 3 is notorious for premature body panel rust, especially above the rear wheel wells. Not sure about frame rust. oh well mine is not that
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Red Bones posted:The population on the island was also so small they ended up with a bunch of genetic problems, including blonde fur. Do you know of any interesting links detailing these? I've never heard of them before and I'd like to
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Peanut President posted:TNA does it again! Lol The Browns
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funmanguy posted:then you're halfway in? lol
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pidan posted:Heads are very heavy, which is why i ancient China they would allegedly collect ears off the fallen, which is allegedly why the Chinese character for "fetch" is an ear next to a hand: 取 (ear 耳 left, hand 又 right, 耳 still means ear, 又 means something else nowadays). I never understood what the bar wanted with the ears Hellcat Maggie brought to the bar in Gangs of New York. Presumably she was taking out people for Bill the Butcher? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAiif-W04Ig
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She was a real person too, as a neat little fact, and wore brass fingernails and had filed down teeth to gently caress people up https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hell-Cat_Maggie
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Say Nothing posted:Google app that finds your art doppelganger. haha ouch
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