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A Bowhead whale survived 130 years after being shot with a Victorian-era harpoon.
Harpoon
True
Coin
Bluetooth
Beer
Buddah
Warrior
BBC
Spanko
Bourbon
Aurelius
Knave
Egyptians
Pupper
Samurai Doggo
King Pupper
Harsh
Washington
WomansRights
Pineapple
Boss
Cock
da Vinci
Quaker
Airmail
Anus
Dev
Whiskey
Churchill
Sex
Slave Debt
Marital Duel
LadyBoy
Caligula
Harden the fuck up
Testicle
Rus
Alfred Nobel
Fly me to the moon
Flyting
King of Rabbits
Merlin
Reading Rage
kanoPositivityMaker
"No news today, here's some Chopin for ya." I feel like we could do with this about 3 times a week
JapAnus
"Dear president. My patient Winston should be allowed to drink as much as he wants. Sincerely, his doctor." "Looks legit"
JohnMagneTrane
#13 Why the Egyptians couldn't have phonograph music.
TheRealAtticus
Winterhearted
Vladimir was the Grand Prince of Kiev. The wasn't Russia at all in 980. Kievan Rus' and Russia are absolutely different terms.
fromchennai
Spanko !
VVulf
#10 Marcus Aurelius' "Meditations" is a cornerstone of the philosophy known as stoicism.
Affray
I am definitely lusty for reading.
schmonday
Apr 18 was an eventful day. Indian rebels executed a major armory raid, a Philippian typhoon, a Romanian church fire, death of a MLB player
twfeline
The office got together and proposed taking a day off, without telling the boss. Like the first day of the new Star Wars movie.
StingLikeAJelly
Bowhead whale average lifespan is 200 years old, the longest lifespan among mammals.
cangarejos
I never knew my personal life was a reenactment of John Merlin's at parties
Vigilante03
daftbehemoth
#4 Those Monks gave up bread for lent, and a Doppelbock is basically liquid bread. Just to get that one more context.
Iloveanonymityandilovebeingnoticed
Mudder’s milk!
ghosthogger
JAYNE! THE MAN THEY CALL JAYNE!
Selerox
The Catholic Church. Working on loopholes since 500AD.
HowardMoonsHotpants
Ada Lovelace: 10 PRINT "Lord Byron is soo gay, innit?" 20 GOTO 10
CondescendingCunt
I doubt "innit" means what you think it means; nor that Babbage's analtical machine ran BASIC, nor that Miss Ada Lovelace ever programmed...
Table5
Sauroctonus
Anyone got the title to that classical Sci-Fi?
cfcannon
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_True_Story
tlamstrike
Verae Historiae or True History/A True Story by Lucian of Samosata.
figarillo
And has nothing to do with sci-fi! Is a parody to Herodotus and other famous travel writers. And is written in Greek.
PhaserRave
#33
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ShitpostAhoy
They actually think most of the crazy stuff was propaganda because the educated Romans hated him and the uneducated loved him. 1/2
ShitpostAhoy
To be fair this is because he blew the Roman treasury on massive parties that all could attend. 2/2
SQIJ
[Citation Needed]
qtip13
That's what I'm saying. I need to know the sources. Cause while I believe some others are far too outlandish...
Cryolith
Every Confederate killed by that guys new Union ship:
B0ULLIE
Robbie Smalls is the illest
Pandamoniyum
pizzabaconator
It’s wrong, but really nice
kamakaziK
I’d be great if the description was chronologically accurate too. Stole a ship, became general, bought the house, and THEN became literate
MrFancyPanzer
Fucking spanko!, that's gonna be my new catch phrase.
realargonwolf
"Big McThankies from McSpanky's"
justDurty
Win1forthegifer
While you’re pulling money out of the bank-O protect your backside from ol’ spanko!
StankoDragutinovic
My Name is Stanko
amglasgow
#32 John Barry didn't just dress as a man to study medicine -- he lived as a man in all ways until his death. Basically a trans man.
twfeline
Cross-dresser.
amglasgow
That's not how the term is used. Cross-dressers dress up for fun or as a kink, but don't identify as female except when dressed up.
novokaine187
I was most def created to huddle under blankets and stay warm, screw you Marcus!
bungleburger3000
Oh, boy. Here comes Marcus. He looks like he's going to to do more than huddle.
circlebreaker
*Dutch Oven intensifies*
OuchMouse
That quote confused me, I couldn’t tell the implication. Staying warm is a good thing!
Madethisusernameforonereason
Considering that the other Marcus meme about just gods is from 2009, this is probably fake too.
ksilverful
Marcus Aurelius was a dick. There. I said it.
virgil247
Took her King???? WTF? You cannot take a King in chess. The game is over when you are able to take it on the next move
TomZarekVP
It was a set up.
daaaBlues
The first ever "murica"
chainmaille
Checkmate is you being able to take the king. Typically in media chess games end when the character uses their piece to knock over the king.
chainmaille
Or a character knocking over their own king when they lose( "take it" ) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLQG3sORAJQ
ThaneofGlamis
Yeah Franklin seemed to just always do whatever the fuck he wanted.
cosmicapotheosis
#29 loose lips sink ships
Selerox
OK, that's clever.
cosmicapotheosis
Thanks!
Raydeeo
Harald Bluetooth got his name from his teeth literally rotting in his mouth. Oral hygiene wasn’t a big thing back then.
kindofanoldman
He had a (or some) Black teeth and black was called blue at the time... as I recall it... from a lecturer in history...
rando84
Someone with a dead tooth isn't unheard of today (& may have nothing to do with hygiene). It was also rare enough at the time that it was (1
rando84
a distinguishing feature used to describe him. (2
AawesomeAardvaark
Whales have necks?
Raxiel
How else would they wear a tie?
nursejr210
And at least 3 chins, too.......
cravingthesun
Yes. Also: many animals have the same number of vertebrae be it a T-Rex, human or giraffe.
Sauroctonus
Yes.. It's not narrower than their head, but it's still a neck.
sureasyourebornyourenevergoingtoseenounicorn
Gotta love ol knife hands
MisterWho
Would have been better if one hand was a spoon.
NotTinyPancakes
Or a fork, helps with dinner
BlueLanternBraxx
Oh Meek? He's dead.
SchrodingerMil
GCRust
Not even the craziest of Emperors were stupid enough to make a permanent enemy of the merchant class.
Realcoolbuddy5
What's real and what's not?
themexicanwave
British slave debt one is legit https://www.gov.uk/government/news/repayment-of-26-billion-historical-debt-to-be-completed-by-government
OneMoreBeerPlease
Yes.
hopethisisarelevantname
I'm having a bit of a hard time trusting that Nordic people "invented" rap battles.
Isbacken
The dog one is right bollocks.
akdude
If that roman syfy book is real can I get the name for it?
cfcannon
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_True_Story
doesntmatter
The Swedish dog king is wrong, because Scandinavian kings were democratically elected. The truth is that the Danes voted that dog into
doesntmatter
power. It was the first Great Dane, and all other great Danes are descended from him.
Dekkonot
Citation needed.
SoooooOriginal
It's true that German monks lived on beer during Lent, but it had far less alcohol back then.
WushiPushi
The dutch word for king is koning and rabbit is konijn. i can see how he mispronounced koning.
Grymhar
Funny thing, actually, the rabbit king thing was an affectionate name, as his Dutch subjects appreciated his efforts to actually learn (1)
Grymhar
Dutch and made better efforts to connect with his subjects than his Dutch predecessors.
AtypicalMammal
I'm guessing it's related to "coney", obsolete english word for rabbit. It's where Coney Island came from.
sjleegketting
Might be the source but no. "Konijn" is the Dutch word with "ij" being a combined sound only found in Dutch based languages (NL, BE, SA)
AtypicalMammal
Eh, it was all proto indo european at some point
JustALullabi
It took me way too long to realise that indeed rabbit and king did not sound alike but konijn en koning do
drgonzo67
Also worth noting that "konijn" is pronounced "co-nine" and that the "g" in "koning" is almost silent, making them very similar.
Batikshawl
And he was french so he would probablimy have said co-ningk
Gargwill
Co-niggit
ChaosandChaos
Koningsegg
Zigor22
Beat me too it +1
AtypicalMammal
Translates as "king's egg"? Appropriate for that car.
ChaosandChaos
It's really just a surname. Christian Koenigsegg.
sinkuvapolija
I am not surprised this happened, the dutch are so mean
Tjitso
Only to French rabbitkings
Binerexis
Or the Spanish
sinkuvapolija
So mean
Howdoyoupronouncethiswebsitesname
“Mind your business” - Ben Franklin when someone caught him with his French ladies... probably?
quietextrovert
Or his opium fueled Asian boys...but who am I to judge?
phantasmaphilia
it's supposed to mean "tend to your business" in today's speak
TheUpdootist
I mean, technically that phrase would apply in that situation so...
NinjaCongo
It also says fug io
MidnightLibrarian
And so, here's my favorite little piece of (incorrect) work on Franklin, song cut from Hamilton: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVmVVkbx3jE
TKBarbus
*French hoors
MidnightLibrarian
Franklin had just lost the love of his life, Deborah Read, in 1774. His son was imprisoned for treason against the Continental Army. This
MidnightLibrarian
wasn't really a sexy time for Franklin. While he was considered rustic, charming, and an enormous flirt, there's no evidence of sex with
MidnightLibrarian
French ladies. In fact Franklin had little time, as he was put on a commission to study animal magnetism, helped alleviate religious
MidnightLibrarian
tensions mounting in the country, did a few inventions, and kept constant good faith with the young government.
THRAWN18
But...he could still have boned women before going to bed, right
BlyroneBlashington
BolenArrow
WHILE HE WAS DROPPIN FAT LOADS IN FRENCH BITCHES AMIRITE?