Knowing history doesn't necessarily make you smarter than anyone else, but it sure feels like it. Sure it's cool to know about sweating sickness and emu wars, but it what can one do with that knowledge other than mention it to uninterested bystanders? Well, you can indulge in sweet history memes for for the ages.
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When it comes to a particular scientific breakthrough, or generally trying to prove something can be done, sometimes it comes down to one person putting it all on the line and hammering it out themselves. History is pretty wild, but also this Tumblr thread proves why mundane people are incredibly important to history. Also, here's the very fast story of the first soldier to take way too many military-grade amphetamines.
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Just cause everyone thinks something's right doesn't mean that it's not completely messed up. An obvious sentiment that can get dangerously easily lost amidst the madness of the times. This Twitter thread seeks to honor a courageous man in history, Silas Soule, who stood up for the right thing even when it ended up costing him his life.
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Via Fast Company
This shot of five photographers (remember when that was a profession that only a few could enter?) on a New York City rooftop in 1920 might be the earliest instance we have of what would be considered a modern selfie. Self-referential meta-photography was born with the selfie itself, apparently, as there's also a shot of the photo being made:
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Via Ancient Peoples
This ancient 20-sided die is believed to be from Egypt in 304 to 30 B.C.E. Clearly the Egyptians knew a thing or two more about tabletop gaming than we thought!
