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The Bailey Ball, a failed ride from the notoriously deadly Action Park.
u/0413ty — 10 days ago
▲ 195 r/ArtefactPorn
Chinese dragon chair equipped with blades and spikes for performances by tang-ki mediums, mistakenly labelled as a torture chair from the 1700s, from c. 1910-1919 [2255x3125]
u/0413ty — 23 days ago
Fate of Hanjians (漢奸的下場), Chinese poster by the Capital City Resistance War Supporters Association of All Citizens after the Rape of Nanking warning against Japanese collaboration, Nanking, China, 1938.
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u/0413ty — 24 days ago
TIL that after a "revelation from God" commanding him to build an operating system to act as the Third Temple in Jerusalem prophesied in the Bible, engineer Terry A. Davis invented TempleOS, a biblical operating system, and the C+ programming language from scratch, even using it to speak with God.
en.wikipedia.orgu/0413ty — 27 days ago
▲ 252 r/todayilearned
TIL about the Wolverine frog, a species of frog that has retractable claws. When threatened, it breaks its toe bones, piercing through its skin like claws. The claws naturally fall back into place and the skin heals, concealing them until necessary.
en.wikipedia.orgu/0413ty — 1 month ago
TIL of Chung Ling Soo, a "Chinese conjuror" who really was an American named William Ellsworth Robinson impersonating a Chinese magician named Ching Ling Foo. His assistants pretended to be his Chinese family and he did not speak English until his last words when he was shot in a bullet-catch trick.
en.wikipedia.orgu/0413ty — 1 month ago
▲ 177 r/Asia_irl
Indian woman accidentally births the Antichrist!
Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition; Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God. 2 Thessalonians 2:3,4,67
u/0413ty — 1 month ago
▲ 858 r/ArtefactPorn
The Yongzheng Emperor of the Qing Dynasty, dressed as a Frenchman, prepares to battle a tiger with a trident, 18th century, Qing Empire. [3632x4001]
u/0413ty — 2 months ago
WhEn EvEryOne haS a CasTe SysTEm, No OnE hAS...
Every week they're going to come up with another "caste system" for every country in the world just to make their's seem normal.
u/0413ty — 2 months ago
There's cities, there's metropolises, and then there's Canterlot
u/0413ty — 2 months ago
Penguin Classics' Monkey King: Journey to the West
Usually Penguin Classics just uses a classical painting or artwork. There is so much traditional art about Journey to the West they could have used. I don't understand this decision.
u/0413ty — 2 months ago
▲ 90 r/taskmaster
Just realized that every series after Jason said season is now labelled season.
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u/0413ty — 2 months ago
TIL that after his voyage to Japan. In December of 1614, English merchant John Saris was discovered to have kept a collection of Japanese erotic art and books. His collection was publicly burnt, he was disgraced, and it ended his career.
en.wikipedia.orgu/0413ty — 2 months ago