the concept of the word Quraysh (the name of the tribe of the Prophet Muhammad) just meaning "Baby Shark" 😵‍💫🦈 (qirsh means "shark" so quraysh would be a diminutive form)

Thread with excerpts from the Spanish Conquest section of T. R. Fehrenbach's "Fire and Blood: A History of Mexico" (1973).

when mount tambora in indonesia erupted in 1815, the volcano killed all 10,000 tambora people and wiped out their culture entirely. their extinct language was uniquely non-austronesian & we only know about it from a 48-word vocabulary list collected by colonial officials in 1814

Veni, vidi, vici

These are my favourite type of YouTube comment

Abraham Lincoln, the first Redditor President

Marx's later views led him to abandon the teleological (and one might even say, soteriological) understanding of history. In its place, he set forth that history was a contingent process and that man was immersed in an ever-changing Becoming, engaging in creative and developmental activities.

this political deck of cards from 1988 has trump and biden as the 6 & 7 of clubs

I think this is similar to what happened with Vulgar Latin in Late Antiquity & led to the development of the Romance languages

The phrase "shooting someone a bird" for making a rude gesture is derived from an earlier expression "hissing at someone like a goose," referring to cussing someone out in general

Otter helping mama cat with her babies..🐈🦦😍

One thing this study showed is that running doesn't generally increase total daily energy expenditure; you burn more during exercise but burn less the rest of the day

Post multa secula, cum ecclesia Romana Christi Ihesu Domini Dei nostri ita creverit ut totum orbem terrarum amplectatur, et operibus mirabilibus atque utilibus que tibi adhuc ignota sunt, plenus erit mundus iocis et trufis quibus omnes delectantur, iuvenes et senes, divites et pauperes, reges et episcopi. Unum ex hiis res est inepta, numerus quidam, scilicet Sexaginta Septem, tamquam res magne hilaritatis et iocunditatis habetur. Nulla subest ratio, nisi quod ita statutum est. Etiam successor tuus, episcopus Romanus nomine Leo, de eo ridebit et hospitibus suis dicet Sexaginta Septem. Mos est insuper manus sursum deorsumque movere dum hoc profertur, sicut statera campsoris. Nichil altius significat; est quasi nuge puerorum, quasi balbuties infantis, et tamen magno gaudio est hiis christianis qui posteri nostri erunt.

The riddle of Iron. The Neo-Assyrian Empire was the first empire to make wide use of iron; as such, it sought to tightly regulate and control the trade. In this letter, King Sargon II accuses a governer of selling iron to nomadic Arabs. The governor replies defensively, "I sell... [only] copper to the Arabs."

extremely funny bit here. likely places for them to be.