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“Don't Be a Sucker” - A powerful short film released in 1943, demonstrating just how damaging prejudice and discrimination can be to the health and well-being of a nation/community. (Told within the context of the Nazi party rising to power in Germany.)

u/EaterofGrief — 9 hours ago
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Between 1778 and 1871, the United States ratified about 370 treaties with Native American nations. Under the U.S. Constitution, these treaties became the supreme law of the land, recognizing tribal sovereignty and guaranteeing territory, hunting rights, and other protections.

u/JohnWilkesLeg — 20 hours ago
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This walnut shell contains sewing necessities that were in circulation in France in the 18th and 19th centuries and a book “Value and Constancy,” a Parisian almanac for the year 1823. It slips out of its slot and can be read as its owner sews.

u/CrippledStripper — 11 hours ago
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These are the bathroom sinks in the Le Creuset offices in Fresnoy-le-Grand. (The toilets are just normal toilets...)

u/dannydutch1 — 1 day ago
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It’s 1622, and you want to move to the “New World” / Virginia — here’s what you should bring with you to be able to sustain yourself

u/SteveNtheseagulls — 1 day ago
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The saddest song ever is from the Kauai 'O'o. The pauses in his song are when a female bird chimes in, a song they sing during mating season but there are pauses because it's a recording of the last of his species. He's singing a love song for a mate that he never got to meet

u/Ok_Call6547 — 1 day ago
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Meet the Swedish sailor that was shipwrecked on an island inhabited by cannibals. He was captured and taken to a local king whose daughter fell in love with him. He married, had nine children with her, and became the king after his father-in-law died.

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u/dannydutch1 — 2 days ago
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A collection of teeth extracted by Peter the Great (1672-1725) who, despite having no formal medical training, fancied himself to be a terrific amateur surgeon.⁣⁣⁣

u/JohnWilkesLeg — 1 day ago
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Pluto Lamps were first demonstrated at the Great Exhibition of 1897. They included an automatic machine that could dispense a gallon of hot water, or a halfpennies worth of beef tea essence, cocoa, milk, sugar, tea or coffee.

u/CrippledStripper — 1 day ago
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The boot worn by John Wilkes Booth the night he murdered Abe Lincoln. It was cut by Dr. Samuel Mudd when he treated Booth's leg wound he received after jumping from President Lincoln's theater box.

u/-SillyKookaburra- — 3 days ago
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The Atacama Giant in Chile is the world’s largest prehistoric human geoglyph, built around 1000–1400 AD. The 119-meter desert figure likely served as an astronomical calendar to track seasons, crops, and rainfall, and is culturally linked to the Andean creator deity Tunupa-Tarapaca.

u/onwhatcharges — 3 days ago
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On this day in 1987, Klaus Barbie (the Gestapo chief who tortured the French Resistance) was finally sentenced to life in prison. By then he'd already spent years in Bolivia advising dictators, helping plan a cocaine coup, and cutting a deal with Pablo Escobar.

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u/dannydutch1 — 2 days ago
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On this day in 1961, Ernest Hemingway took his own life in Ketchum, Idaho. He'd survived two plane crashes, a war, and 15 rounds of electroconvulsive therapy that destroyed his ability to write. Without that, he said, he had nothing. He was 61 years old.

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u/dannydutch1 — 4 days ago
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In 1949, a group of kindergarten students were given a simple Father’s Day assignment: Draw your dad. Without photographs, references, or corrections, the children filled pages with wonderfully honest portraits.

u/onwhatcharges — 5 days ago