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dumb moments in history | Nfield87 23.1k points 12 hours ago 3 9 3 3 During Spanish American War Spanish governor Guam wasn't told about war US warship showed up he happy see them, cause he thought they where just visiting. Boy he wrong.

Moments In History That Are Too Dumb To Seem Real

A Tumblr thread about people guessing top secret info with common sense | phoenixyfriend 5 spazzcat Follow tilthat TIL Tom Clancy's stories were so detailed, many assumed he ex-military fact he never served. He wrote most his stories his spare time whilst working as an insurance salesman. via ift.tt alternative-munster Follow He actually interrogated by Feds this.

Tumblr Thread: Tom Clancy's Brain Freaked Out The Military

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ideas and things that haven't been around for as long as people think | BetterThanHorus 40.1k points 13 hours ago 2 e 32 Hallways weren't widely used until 1800s. Rooms would just open into next room

Things That Are Way Newer Than People Think

discovery of 2000 year old cat drawing in the desert of peru - thumbnail of discovered etched feline nazca lines

2,000-Year-Old Cat Discovered Etched Among Nazca Lines In Peru

twitter thread plus tweets of cats leaving their paw prints in important places throughout history thumbnail includes two pictures of two different open books with cat paw prints on them

Cats Leaving Their Paw Marks Throughout History Thread Goes Viral

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Inventions and things that have been around for longer than people think | jazzman0116 40.8k points 1 day ago ancient Romans (well wealthy ones) had central heating their homes can actually still see pipes some buildings at Herculaneum!

Stuff That's Way Older Than People Think

Funny Twitter thread about how medieval artists didnt know what animals looked like, had to guess or get creative | Daniel Holland @DannyDutch thread medieval paintings animals look nothing like real animals because artist had never seen them. Starting with Oyster | This elephant with tornado trunk. By Jacob van Maerlant Der Naturen Bloeme

Twitter Thread: Medieval Artists Had No Idea What Animals Looked Like

An AskReddit thread about things that grew classier over time | jasenzero1 Eating lobster. Used be so abundant fed prisoners. VillyD known as cockroach sea

Things That Grew Classier Over Time

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Informative Twitter thread about the history of Ancient roman fossil hunting, archaeology, paleontology, dinosaurs, mammoths, extinct animals | Gareth Harney @OptimoPrincipi 1) An ancient Roman-dinosaur- monster-bones thread! Yes read right did know Romans were keen fossil hunters, fascinated by bones ancient "monsters Augustus liked decorate his holiday-villa "not so much with statues and pictures but with | bones monstrous beasts, famed their antiquity and rarity. He called them bones giants

Twitter Thread: A Brief History Of Ancient Roman Fossil Hunting

Funny history memes about colonialism, great britain, european history | fought off Coronavirus and take first step back into pub. BOMBARDIER ENGLISH | Anglo-American relations 19th century United bloody States Well, well, well. If it isn't Great Hide territory because l colonise anything Britain

15 Amusing Colonial Memes Full Of Historical Humor

funny thread comparing civil war generals to muppets | Cecily Zander @CNZander George Armstrong Custer Miss Piggy United States Army officer commander American Civil War

Amusing Twitter Thread Compares Civil War Generals to Muppets

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A funny Tumblr thread about timelessly funny internet references | headspace-hotel S headspace-hotel forget Internet things would be incomprehensible 2 years ago phenomenon where is appreciation Internet things could show someone 3000 BC and be almost sure they'd get kick out 1 headspace-hotel

Tumblr Thread: Timelessly Entertaining Internet Gems

Funny dank memes about ancient Egypt | since did become more this beautiful than this? put an end impossible standards set by old kingdom. this message brought by disc sky-is--one-true-god gang | supposed rule afterlife as Osiris forever but instead get sent hell not believing some hippie who hasn't been born yet

Sixteen Ancient Egyptian Memes That Any History Buff Can Nerd Out Over

vintage cat memes cute cats kittens meme history 1900 lolcats amazing interesting cool aww | black and white photograph of two farmer kittens holding a rake and a watering can

100-Year-Old Vintage Cat Memes

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Inventions so good they don't need to be improved | SaltyChickenDip 58.8k points 16 hours ago Paper clip. Last major patent 1880's

Inventions That Work Too Well to be Improved Upon

Funny classical art meme with caption that reads, "Queen: come to bed; King: not until I have a name for my soldiers; Queen: k night; King: babe ur a genius"

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