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TIL Mexico since the conquest has had 130 heads of state and only one of them knew how to speak Nahuatl, the dominant indigenous language: Maximilian of Habsburg. Maximilian was an Austrian archduke who became emperor of the Second Mexican Empire from 1864 until his execution in 1867.

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u/Solid-Move-1411 — 2 days ago
▲ 262 r/PropagandaPosters

A girl dumps a guy for Lenin's speeches, USSR (1925): "I am now not yours, I am now Senya's, He took me to the council, To listen to the speeches of Lenin."

u/Solid-Move-1411 — 2 days ago
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In 1966, Time Magazine Predicted that by 2000 everyone will be "independently wealthy"

New York Times said total workdays will be less than half of the year with no one working above 32 hours a week.

Also $40,000 in 1966 dollar is equivalent in purchasing power to about $411,135.80 today.

u/Solid-Move-1411 — 3 days ago
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TIL a book called "The Great Illusion" which came out in 1909 Britain which argued that a large scale European war was extremely improbable, because rationally everyone must be aware it would lead to ruin. He argued that war was economically irrational after industrialization as conquest didn't pay

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u/Solid-Move-1411 — 4 days ago
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MBBS from AIIMS Delhi, took IITM Online degree during college, then cleared GATE Exam with AIR-1 and took M.Tech in IISC Bangalore. Now works as director in a US based Medical Informatics company

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u/Solid-Move-1411 — 5 days ago
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What if Great Depression never happened and Weimer Republic found stability?

While people associate Hitler rise with hyperinflation, it was long over when he came to power. Currency had stabilized by 1924 and economy was booming for a short period b/w 1924-1929 referred to as Golden Age of the Weimar Republic.

The introduction of the Rentenmark in late 1923 successfully ended the devastating hyperinflation crisis and 1924 Dawes Plan restructured Germany's war reparations.

Industrial production and export rates increased significantly, allowing the government to fund public works like schools and hospitals. In 1926-27, Germany real GDP surged up to 8% per annum.

Unemployment rate had declined massively too going from 23% in 1923 to 4-5% by 1928.

Then Great Depression struck and everything went to gutter again since Germany had taken massive bank loans from American banks to boost its economy.

u/Solid-Move-1411 — 7 days ago
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TIL during the Boxer Rebellion (1899–1901) in China, rebels believed they could attain magical, supernatural invulnerability against foreign bullets and weapons through rituals. This belief was a core component of their "support the Qing, destroy the foreigner" slogan.

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u/Solid-Move-1411 — 8 days ago
▲ 171 r/geography

Prior to WW1, half of top 10 largest country by population were in Europe. Today none of the European countries except Russia are anywhere near Top 10

WW1 and WW2 crashed Europe TFR completely while rest of the world continued growing.

  • Germany TFR dropped from 3.85 to 1.95 in matter of 3 years b/w 1914-1917 and then only rebounded little bit and dropped further
  • France TFR collapsed similarly dropping from 2.4 to 1.2 b/w 1914-1917 although it rebounded bit better in post-war years
  • Russia had one of the sharpest collapse 7.2 to 1.6 b/w 1914-1945. It only had minor rebounds and completely tanked
  • Almost every European country had similar effect on their TFR due to great wars to some extent

Wonder what Europe population would be without these wars?

u/Solid-Move-1411 — 8 days ago
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Why is ISI Kolkata highest placement is so low when median is so high and it has 100% placement rate for multiple years? Even internship payout are like 1+ LPM on average.

Everybody gets a good job, 1/4 of the classes gets PHD admission in Ivy leagues colleges yet nobody gets 1 crore type jobs?

u/Solid-Move-1411 — 9 days ago