"Incest --- a game the whole family can play" (attributed to Cicero)

And if that isn't a reflection on a broken society, I don't know what is.

Exactly. In medieval spain the moors in Al Andalus actually prefered blond germanic slaves. So much that the word slave in spanish (and likely in english) "esclavo" comes from "eslavo" (as in an slavic person)

There were no human casualties. The "army" just retreated eventually.

Wow... looked it up in Wikipedia and I'm seriously impressed with these birds! Major Meredith, commander of the "war", after his withdrawal, apparently wrote: "If we had a military division with the bullet-carrying capacity of these birds, it would face any army in the world. They can face machine guns with the invulnerability of tanks. They are like Zulus whom even dum-dum bullets could not stop."

The strange here is not that the emus won but what were the Aussies thinking!

Yeah they're very intimidating

Kind of like when Morty f*cked with squirrels and they had to find a different reality to pack up and move to.

What they thinking, you cant defeat Emus.

T am not surprised, the Emus won !!!

Should have sent them over the top at Gallipoli.

I did not know that, but I guess it's the kind of thing governments might not want to teach their school children

Yea emus are absolutely amazing as a proud Aussie I see emus like everyday and they’re awesome and really powerful

I remember. Australia was the first and only country to, wage war against a bird, wage war against their national bird, and lose a war against a bird.

Humans thinking certain animals are pests when, in actuality, humans are the only pests. What other species has created more environmental destruction?

Oh, but it is better. Because Australia went to war with Emus... twice. The Emus won both wars.

If an emu likes shoegazing music would you call them an emo emu?

the Emu's are Australian, so technically Australia won.

Those emus….

thats not really a conspiracy theory if it actually happened...........

Oh, the bitterest of all ironies.

"Long sausage full of teeth" is a good body plan.

One is titled : "How to cover a book in human skin and get away with it"

Gee, you mean nations commit horrible atrocities even on their own citizens? Gasp, shock, faint ----- and, yes, that was sarcasm.

Controlling women's wombs for thousands of years and still nothing has changed

here's a list: As of 2018, the countries with the most slaves were: India (18.4 million), China (3.86 million), Pakistan (3.19 million), North Korea (2.64 million), Nigeria (1.39 million), Indonesia (1.22 million), Democratic Republic of the Congo (1 million), Russia (794,000) and the Philippines (784,000).

The fact that some critical decisions that will affect the whole humanity are on the hands of a few people, is scary

Forced Vampirism

That’s insane. I remember watching Neil Armstrong stepping onto the moon.

TIL how to spell Bazalgette. Always sounded like it should be Basiljet to me. First modern sewer system was in London, before that the River Thames was the sewer!

They also had a violent empire that had slavery and conquered, raped and pillaged their neighbours. Which is completely normal for the time. But everybody talks about the europeans as if we were the only ones to commit atrocities

Ireland hasn't recovered from the potatoes famine. There were 8 million in Ireland in 1841, now there are about 6.

I will never stip being shocked at the idiocy of doctors. Anybody with half a neuron knows that they feel pain. Since they show it. There was no reason to think otherwise except laziness

oh yeah i've heard of this, there were a lot of people that died there...

And the babies slept very quietly after their baths! But seriously, water was often contaminated in the ancient world, and alcohol killed bacteria so it might actually have been a good idea. Did you know that Roman army was able to conquer much of the known world because they carried huge vats of low-quality wine and mixed it with whatever drinking water they found? It killed enough pathenogenic microbia that the armies didn't get sick en masse in dubious areas.

In the Tuskegee Study, the U.S. government injected African Americans with syphilis so that they could find how it spreads and works its way through the body. And they just left them infected rather than giving them penicillin afterwards.

Clearly they used a Dutch oven.

And it took even longer from that point to now to work out that we still have dinosaurs in the form of birds and reptiles.

One way that chronobiologists and sleep researchers have used to identify and study circadian rhythms is to spend extended periods isolated from natural light, temperature fluctuations, or other stimuli that could signal the time of day. Today, some laboratories have special facilities to achieve this isolation, but early researchers used caves. Nathaniel Kleitman conducted the first cave experiment in 1938 when he and a graduate student spent 32 days isolated from the outside world in Mammoth Cave, Kentucky. The researchers imposed a 28-hour cycle on themselves consisting of ten hours of work, nine of leisure, and another nine hours of sleep. Bedtime shifted four hours later each day during the Mammoth Cave study. Despite the alternative schedule and the absence of external cues, Kleitman found that body temperature continued to fluctuate in an approximately 24-hour cycle, suggesting the existence of an endogenous clock.

We have done so much evil in such little time

If only he knew

Not correct. Spain was never part of the Holy Roman Empire. But we shared leaders.

Someone won a Nobel Prize by doing large-scale research on large historical and current famines, and found the same pattern in every one: There was always enough food to feed everyone, but in a famine, large numbers of people just had no access to the food. They were either deprived of food, or weren't given enough resources to afford food.

It's a folklore story passed down generations, like the Bible but believable.

Unrelated but the picture is beautiful