Italy: We are with the victors, we spread only pizza and love, forget the first couple of years…

Well, the USSR wasn't that innocent either in the whole situation to be fair

Yes, you also cancelled at least 20 million people! 🤬

You’re the only creature who ruins the planet, you mean.

That is the equivalent of 7k today Only 16 years after they began their long, sad march along the Trail of Tears, the Choctaws learned of people starving to death in Ireland. With great empathy, in 1847 Choctaw individuals made donations totaling $170,

Witch!

In ancient Greece picking religions was like us picking out a restaurant. And there were some super secret ones scholars still don’t know much about.

Got to admit I chuckled too hard at this

Americans, FYI. Rasputin was a song by European disco artists Boney M. (Boney M were popular in U.K. with their cover of The Melodians " Rivers of Babylon")

*produces the largest number of independence days ever*

I'm not going to look up whether those dates are true. Because it tickles me to think they are.

Quick Cheat Code to write any academic paper or have a decent conversation on a point: pick an thing that happened (event/artwork/anything) and then explore what led up to it and how that thing influenced what came after. Boom - that's most understanding our world

History is written by the victors.

so instead of going up, they went down

This story happened too often: automation threatens certain jobs, the workers go on strike against automation, the bosses don't want to deal with unruly workers, all workers get replaced by machines.

The doors closed on them

Luddites in general

Canada Post after the recent strike.

I think of this every time I see Amazon warehouse employees complaining to the media. They're their own best argument for automation and somehow don't see that Amazon is way ahead of them.

Just made a big batch of chilli and garlic deterrent yesterday!

Even Hatshepsut, although woman, was the son of Ra!

" I can't wait to get on the beach at Omaha."Oh,this isn't what I was expecting. "

Florida (Ron DeSantis) bans books because they didn't want people to know things like these from History. Breaking News: Florida bans BP

short end of the stick. imagine life if he was allowed to live his life?

Ra ra Rasputin!

Now I know what a "weeb" is. TIL a derogatory term for white kids obsessed with anime and Japanese culture. Please correct me if need be.

We Americans sure have been chumps since January, 2001.

Modern translation: I like big butts and I cannot lie.....

Reminds me of the time a chinese general wanted to flood the enemy camp by breaking a dam. Problem was he flooded the huge city he actually wanted to protect and abou 100.000 people died because of this stupid mistake, if I remember correctly.

Olympic Games Berlin 1936

Even in 8th century BC, doggos were the goodest bois and girls.

That's some epic fail journalism

I love it when Hitler made the Japanese honorary aryans for attacking pearl harbor. Imagine his next move if he'd been victorious in europe.

This is the best censoring job I have ever seen.

Giggles

this needs more details. Holeee C**p.. In 1808, a lover’s quarrel in Paris led to one of the most interesting duels ever fought. Monsieur LePique and Monsieur de Grandpré both fell in love with the same ballerina. So they did what anyone caught in a 19th century Parisian love triangle would do: they fought a duel via hot air balloon. https://theinternetsaysitstrue.com/2022/01/03/lepique-and-grandpre-the-hot-air-balloon-duel/

I mean, Crassus was one of the biggest scam artists in history, so what did you expect?!

Ronald Reagan almost makes me religious again. Just to know he is burning in hell and isn't just dead.

Crazy how common those names were in the Middle East

Is this why most chefs are badasses?

"mostly"

To be fair though, they were bloodthirsty tyrants who needed killing

I always hope hes not a murderer or rxxxist, but thats just me

Starts as top image, becomes second image one lines have been broken?