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Historical fun facts https://t.co/j4dYVvOJo4
Nice contextualization of the passage of time https://t.co/Cl6qniMdcm
Cool computer history museum https://t.co/2quIb8A5wg
9. "extensive ancient beer-brewing operation" 13,000 years old https://t.co/MOyzss62AO
10. A thread on spelunking into random years https://t.co/9rky5TwF45
11. This is almost 4,000 years old https://t.co/0EAyehfGtH
12. The Hindenburg (a German zeppelin) flying over New York City on May 6th, 1937 – just a few hours before crashing-and-burning in New Jersey, killing over 30 people https://t.co/hcvqruJIHN https://t.co/lumGT9fC8T
13. Indonesian President Sukarno having cigarettes with Krushchev (USSR) and Nehru (India), ~1960s. He had 9 (NINE) wives. When the KGB tried to blackmail him with a sex tape (with several women), he supposedly laughed and asked for extra copies to show off to his countrymen https://t.co/gnj53Wb6zW
15. French cinema, 1925. Images like this really reveal how stale and predictable our common-mainstream visual language mostly is. There's so much interesting stuff from history we could draw from https://t.co/zTEiTGVzE8
16. London, 1949. A video game or TV show in this sort of setting would be so refreshing https://t.co/MFBFpzfiRR
17. Oct 1st 1969, Mao Zedong at Tiananmen Square in front of a 100,000 strong crowd https://t.co/zGqe8Wfhug
18. The letter Gandhi wrote Hitler to try and persuade him not to... Hitler https://t.co/biakTXyytQ
20. the lost ships of Caligula https://t.co/dlYz5afPQ8
21. 6ft tall golden-eyed priestess https://t.co/mT1X6eIEmv
22. Thoughtful thread about Freddie Mercury, made with a lot of love. I wish there was a thread like this for everything https://t.co/k4zJBVQp8S
23. mammoths https://t.co/sZWQWyVZOJ
24. one of countless great women mostly erased from popular history https://t.co/gBpg76Q4hD
26. difficult, painful, moving personal history re: the 1984 anti-Sikh riots https://t.co/E6vSK3Fxe5
27. vulva flashers https://t.co/dNP15JaX9F
28. Alexandria library facts!!! and more https://t.co/8EH4GnFFCf
29. never quite realized this – child marriages for royalty was not representative of marriage for everyone; ie royal marriages were basically political https://t.co/qu3vIFeNbG
30. I’m assuming this is like a “hot mum who has it all and does everything, what’s your excuse” type 1680s Instagram post https://t.co/1de2jcrkp2
31. the things they carried (Jewish people in Europe in the mid-1300s) https://t.co/s0l1U8W8yw
32. Nazis ransacking and burning a Jewish synagogue https://t.co/ynrMOnhab6
33. Ornamental iron around the world https://t.co/D6O0poBBvi
Cool story: In 1817, this guy Walter McFarlane was born in Torrance, near Glasgow, Scotland. He worked for a jeweller, then apprenticed with a blacksmith. He then bought over Saracen Foundry, which is responsible for a STAGGERING amount of ornamental ironwork around the world https://t.co/5u6Iab1t51
33. a woman in Iran https://t.co/G1xeivlyfN
34. The Sentinelese *were* contacted https://t.co/p1NYrW1fJi
35. Funny story + interesting history in the comments. Italy is a relatively recent concept https://t.co/XVZoSTSlmR
36. TIL that Eleanor Roosevelt and Amelia Earhart were close friends. In 1933, they snuck out of a White House dinner in their gowns and slippers, and flew a Curtiss Condor biplane to Baltimore and back in 1933 https://t.co/f9RNfoEEKh
37. exciting mystery-adventure into pre-human history https://t.co/rPSqueld9c
38. people have loved their dogs for thousands of years :'-) https://t.co/lAz4W3mzhb
39. Jamaica https://t.co/GBmDwLuLy0
Learning ‘bout Jamaica today. - South of Cuba, west of Haiti - Land area 15x the size of Singapore - Pop: 2.9m Columbus arrived in 1494; bringing disease that killed many. Spanish rule England wrested it from the Spanish in 1655 In 1660, pop was 4,500 white, 1,500 black 🤔 https://t.co/mRD5RwJegQ
40. The Book Of Kapoors https://t.co/5cO2PadQrs
41. Afrikaans https://t.co/cHJebdN5Cv
42. Victorian cannibalism https://t.co/P5rMf70o9t
43. Quintland, 1934 – 1943 https://t.co/lhdz432aPK
44. In search of the greatest page of any medieval manuscript https://t.co/COqZgybRWN
45. Entertaining thread of shitty facts https://t.co/0UP9sTNsEA
46. Thoughtful take on that “dark ages” meme https://t.co/wxIAQZvMHR
47. this is from a fun set of historical contexts from the 1900s – it's playful and creative, which I think is a compelling way to get interested in learning more https://t.co/NsGmvtojAn
48. really eye-opening thread about the relationship between bicycles and women's rights & freedoms. Bicycles don't seem particularly cutting-edge now, but they changed the world in some profound and intimate ways, and people had *issues* with this https://t.co/e42FmZV7Uk
49. Making bread with ancient yeast https://t.co/yg27DrU93G
50. chinese warlord era https://t.co/GYYFDFuL88
51. Roman sex coins https://t.co/JQVXrf5NOO
52. Fidel Castro seducing the CIA agent sent to kill him https://t.co/w2zvuEGJCW
53. 2000-year-old letter from a teenage son https://t.co/atfh4Y1FpE
54. the journey of an artwork https://t.co/5gMyjcAytc
55. Buddhist-looking bucket from a Viking funeral in the 800s https://t.co/d7B8E9cl4N
56. logbook of people who worked on the pyramids!! https://t.co/SvTIXwy8SW
57. thread-of-threads re: the Caribbean https://t.co/qe2UWfAGWA
59. Turia’s eulogy https://t.co/0J7YINh8F3
60. ancient Caral–Supe civilization thread https://t.co/f8Q80PSBhk