Category: History
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Fact Check – Rensenware
guy made ransomware that requires you to get 200 million points in a video game. he seemingly made this just for fun? and when he infected *himself* with the ransomware and couldn’t reach the score, he put out a formal apology pic.twitter.com/wcU7o45Fue — depths of wikipedia (@depthsofwiki) December 2, 2022
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Fact Check – Jim Crow era literacy test
An example of a literacy test given to African Americans during the Jim Crow era. It was designed to be impossible to pass due to the vague instructions.
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Role Model – 1981 Olympic Athlete Paul Hunt
It takes a whole lotta courage and a whole lotta balls to do what this guy does. How he managed to fit all of it into that unitard is beyond me.
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Trailer – FDR American Bad@$$!
Probably the best trailer I have seen in months. I love this. This is the true story of Franklin Roosevelt.
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Fact Check – John Lennon is a jerk
Turns out John Lennon liked pretending to be a retard back in his day.
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Your WTF for the day – Eating Dirt in the South
There hasn’t been something this racist since dirt was invented as an edible food source.
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Happy Thanksgiving!
EDIT: A repost of last year’s Thanksgiving video. Hope everyone has a great holiday. Nothing quite gets you in the spirit of the holidays like exploiting innocent children. It also happens to be quite hysterical. Please enjoy this wonderful telling of where Thanksgiving got started. And ended.
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Animation – Gettysburg Address
A reading of the Gettysburg Address with some clever animation to boot. I know some kids who had to memorize this in Elementary school. I think this would help learning it. Gettysburg Address from Adam Gault on Vimeo.
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History – 1945-1998 Nuclear Testing
An amazing catalog of nuclear testing worldwide. This is for my history nerds. Takes a minute to get going but has some pretty interesting statistics. By a guy named Isao Hasimoto.