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[incorrect-romanticism]

Lord Byron: It sure is muggy out today!

Mary and Percy Shelley: Byron if all of our mugs are on the lawn when we go outside we’re leaving you.

Byron: [sips coffee from a bowl]

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[more-than-just-musik]

Liszt: What is considered punishment as a kid but a reward as an adult?

Chopin: death

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[shakescene]

victor frankenstein, sweaty and sickly: please fuck off. please fuck off. please fuck off.

his reanimated corpse son:

[masochist-incarnate]

So I’m gonna kill your wife

[shakescene]

this is my favorite reply on this post because for a moment I forgot the creature kills victor’s wife and i thought you were threatening me

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[pogphotoarchives]

Making topographical relief model, Palace of the Governors, Santa Fe, New Mexico

Date: ca. 1910?
Negative Number 012178

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[tilthat]

TIL H. L. Mencken when writing about the US Presidency predicted that “On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart’s desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.”

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[working-class-worm]

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[federalbureauofislam]

all of u: postmodernism

me, an intellectual: neo-clownism

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[tilthat]

TIL Warren Buffett bought controlling shares of his now multibillion dollar company, Berkshire Hathaway, just to fire the CEO as revenge for trying to low-ball him when Buffett went to sell the stock. Buffett considers it the dumbest stock he ever bought.

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[tilthat]

TIL of Sir Francis Galton, cousin of Charles Darwin. He invented fingerprint analysis, weather maps, the concept of mathematical correlation, the phrase “nature versus nurture,” and psychometry—the measuring of intellect (IQ tests).

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[tilthat]

TIL that in 1970s, people in Cambodia were killed for being academics or for merely wearing eyeglasses.

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[tilthat]

TIL Chinese King Tang ordered golden coins to be made and distributed to poor families who had been forced to sell their children because of the drought. It was intended for them to use this money to buy their children back

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[just-shower-thoughts]

If you ever fuck up bad in life just remember that somewhere else an ant is bringing food laced with poison to their own colony killing the queen that is responsible for laying the eggs of their next generation.

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[tilthat]

TIL India’s “Go Air” airline only hires female flight attendants since they are lighter by weight, so they save up to $500,000 USD per year in fuel

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[space-pics]

The Fairy of Eagle Nebula - [3857x7804]

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[hessiandwelling]

“Nothing more speaks to the heart as their serene wise men, who are all sad men. I would swap the happiness of the whole West for the Russian way to be sad.”

— Nietzsche on Russia