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661 upvotes
Jul 24, 2026, 5:28 AM UTC
Posted by /u/LurkingTamilian
It is a common trope is Sci-fi for an ancient advanced civilization to collapse leaving behind artifacts that newer people can use and maintain but not develop themselves. Do we have documented cases of this in real-life? I am not counting cases like the pyramids which might hav…
401 upvotes
Jul 23, 2026, 9:37 PM UTC
Posted by /u/ThatOneBLUScout
Eggs, Pancakes, Omelets, Cereal, Toast, Hash-browns, Ect. All of those are considered staples for breakfast, but it's considered a bit odd to eat them later in the day. I was wondering how that started.
238 upvotes
Jul 23, 2026, 8:18 PM UTC
Posted by /u/OnlyInSilence
A trope that pops up in fiction occasionally is the notion that the allies let the Germans blow up certain Atlantic convoys/cities in ww2, lest the Third Reich get suspicious about how the their attacks were always being predicted. Off the top of my head, an episode of the TV sh…
235 upvotes
Jul 23, 2026, 9:12 PM UTC
Posted by /u/GreenBrilliant3761
I recently watched the 2002 film Ted Bundy (starring Michael Reilly Burke), which features a highly detailed, clinical, and graphic preparation sequence before Bundy is electrocuted. A specific detail shown is the insertion of cotton/gauze into the rectum to prevent post-mortem…
179 upvotes
Jul 23, 2026, 7:45 PM UTC
Posted by /u/Chinoyboii
From what I understand, current scholarship on Palestinian ancestry generally indicates that a substantial portion of their ancestry derives from Levantine populations that continued to live in the region despite successive conquests, migrations, expulsions, conversions, and per…
129 upvotes
Jul 23, 2026, 9:16 PM UTC
Posted by /u/IHad360K_KarmaDammit
His Wikipedia page describes the display of his body: Anatomy professor Hugh Holmes McGuire stained the arteries, drained of blood, with red dye, treated the muscles so they resembled wood, and preserved the nerves with varnish. The skin, half of the skull, and the brain were re…
96 upvotes
Jul 23, 2026, 7:43 PM UTC
Posted by /u/TurtleBlaster5678
In 1979 President Jimmy Carter officially recognized the People's Republic of China as the sole legitimate government of China. This was a hard pivot from the previous US foreign policy position that the Republic of China (Taiwan) was the sole legitimate government What did the…
78 upvotes
Jul 23, 2026, 7:23 PM UTC
Posted by /u/ClothesDreyer
I largely agree that history isn’t shaped entirely by “great men.” But something I’m still confused about: post-WWI Germany may have always gotten a far-right fascist dictator, but Hitler’s specific focus on Jews and the Holocaust led to the near-destruction of an entire ethnic-…
67 upvotes
Jul 24, 2026, 9:50 AM UTC
Posted by /u/Powerful-Mix-8592
During the 19th century, there was a wave of emigration out of Europe, driven by poverty, famine, endless warfare, etc. The top emigrants were the Germans fleeing poverty-stricken and heavily militarized/war-ravaged German states, followed by Irish fleeing the Potato Famine, Ita…
56 upvotes
Jul 24, 2026, 2:38 AM UTC
Posted by /u/Lament-of-Baudelaire
I recently had my first kidney stone. Pain unimaginable. I kept asking God WHY? That was the only thought I could manage at the time. In complete agony until I finally received a shot of morphine in the ER, over an hour and a half after the pain began. Vomited twice from pain al…
47 upvotes
Jul 23, 2026, 9:32 PM UTC
Posted by /u/PrudentAbility9219
I don't know how to say this in a neat way,but I don see myself living past 30. I have been in a state of paranoia and delusional thinking for 6 years. I have been in and out of mental facilities for the same amount of time and now I am 26 dependent like a leech. The thing about…
45 upvotes
Jul 24, 2026, 2:49 AM UTC
Posted by /u/apfq
Hey, this might be a dumb question, but I’m trying to find solid research on when the Library of Alexandria’s decline or burning actually happened. I keep seeing Plutarch’s account, but that was written way later, and a lot of other mentions I’ve found are also super delayed. Am…
31 upvotes
Jul 23, 2026, 6:59 PM UTC
Posted by /u/jellyfishstatic
I was involved in a chat in a video game Discord server (for Kingdom Come: Deliverance 1&2), where during a spirited discussion we ran aground on some confusion. The question is: In the case of being driven off your estates and losing your fortune would a noble retain their titl…
23 upvotes
Jul 24, 2026, 12:38 AM UTC
Posted by /u/Complex_Insect_1200
Because if you have to be baptized to be saved,Do they go to hell?
21 upvotes
Jul 24, 2026, 5:50 AM UTC
Posted by /u/joe_pao
Heard this in an Orthodox chant Why do we call her "Most Holy" and ask for her to "save us?"
19 upvotes
Jul 24, 2026, 2:27 AM UTC
Posted by /u/OpeningMycologist455
I like everyone else obviously want to serve God, but unlike everyone else I haven't leapt into the bible. I've barely read anything in there, besides what I read at church, I was never told **HOW** to study the bible, my father says he wants me to read the entire thing like a b…
14 upvotes
Jul 23, 2026, 11:57 PM UTC
Posted by /u/Ok-Letterhead-3519
Just asking
5 upvotes
Jul 23, 2026, 11:50 PM UTC
Posted by /u/ManufacturerHot4406
Been thinking about this regarding The Odyssey and all the discourse about accurate adaptation, etc. personally I find this kind of discussion laughable, as if we haven’t been telling and retelling the same stories for millennia, just updated for what particular culture is consu…