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It's full of pictures of remote places, historical artifacts, inspiring human initiatives, and much, much more. So if you too enjoy learning obscure facts about anything and everything, join us in having a look at this online community's top posts.
It's like wandering into a museum run entirely by the internet, which is free but still works.
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Corrie ten Boom was a Dutch watchmaker who lived above her family's shop when the Nazis invaded the Netherlands in 1940. Soon after, they decided to build a secret room and use it to hide Jewish refugees. Over the next four years, Corrie ten Boom saved more than 800 people from the Holocaust.
Her direct family's only survivor. I can't wrap my head around an entire society mobilizing around, not just genocide, but the systemic, industrial nature of it. Which is why I sound like a psychopath in my unrelenting bullying, cajoling, and profiling trumpers as the vile scum they are... Because we are in 1930s Germany danger territory of making, and have made, twice now, history altering cruelty ("faith") based decisions on the backs of people who absolutely would have been Hïtler supporters in another context. If only half of Germany had looked at the other half and said, "get that filthy "red hat" off, it's not okay. Who you support and why is not okay. How antithetical you're being to basic decency, humanity, and the agreed upon role of government in a civil society is not ok.". Anyway, I often sound like a ranting loon because more people needed to 10-15 years prior to the holócaust. And I am not being overdramatic or hyperbolic about MAGAts being every single bit as dangerous.
Your comment needs to be upvoted more, Rob D!
Load More Replies...The Dutch were absolute legends, hiding and helping their Jewish friends and neighbours to escape to neutral countries.
Nah, most looked the other way, some sold info to the Germans and The Netherlands have the lowest percentage of surviving Jews in Western Europe.
Load More Replies...And now people in the US need to start building the same to protect people from ICE.
Morgan Freeman imported 26 hives from Arkansas to his ranch and planted magnolia, clover, lavender, and bee-friendly fruit trees so that the bees could thrive.
Is he considered a national treasure in the USA? If not, he should be.
@Otto Katz : Yes 100% this! Humans have an economical intrest in the honeybee and will do much to not let them die out. Try to do native flowers with lots of pollen and nectar. And tips for future, Post link with an answer then we can answer directly to you 👍
In 1913, a 10-year-old black girl named Sarah Rector received a land allotment of 160 acres in Oklahoma. The best farming land was reserved for whites, leaving her with a barren plot, but oil was discovered on her property and she became one of the country's first black millionaires.
What, being given worthless land and hoping oil will be discovered on it?
Load More Replies...I'm just happy, but amazed that the State didn't immediately find some way of stealing it all back from her, like they did when it turned out that the First People had been 'given' some land that was later found to have value.
A herd of capybaras at Malaysia's national zoo adopted a stray cat named Oyen during the COVID-19 pandemic — and today he’s an official part of their enclosure.
If you read this without seeing Oyen you would guess he's a ginger, they are built a bit different.
In 1959 police were called to a segregated library when a Black 9-year-old boy refused to leave after being told the library was not for Black people. The boy Ronald McNair went on to get a PhD in physics from MIT and became an astronaut. That library is now named after him.
1959. 1959. 1959. Remember that the next time a boomer MAGAt refutes racism. These people were literally adults BEFORE The civil Rights and voting Rights Acts were passed. Yet took absolutely zero time voting "we're tired of hearing about it, there's no racism. Now you want to talk discrimination, let's talk about how tough us white conservative Christians have it..." 😡 And we still share a political realm with these morons and still pay for it. Every d**n day.
Mr Pedant mentions - people may try to assert that something is incorrect - this assertion is called 'rebuttal'. MAGA are rebutting claims they are racist. It would only be if they proved this to be true beyond reasonable doubt , that they could say they were refuting it. The words are different for a reason, because they mean different things. Don't give MAGA breathing room.
Load More Replies...The reforestation of Rio De Janeiro from 1989 to 2019.
Zofia Posmysz's mugshot after being arrested for distributing anti-Nazi leaflets in 1942 when she was 19 years old. She was sent to Auschwitz and Ravensbrück, surviving harsh conditions before being liberated in May 1945 by the US Army. She died in 2022 at 98 years old.
The idea that in the west, many countries they still classify ppl by "race" is insane to me. I see that the word "African American" for example is still used in IDs and things like that. We know it refer to ppl with black skin. Yet I am from Africa myself. I have olive coloured skin. Would I be an "African American" if i get citizenship there? Why is this a thing at all! I dont get it. We are one humankind with different countries of origin. That is it. I will understand this whole "race" thing if one can tell me what "race" are the grandkids of 4 grandparents from Canada, Ghana, Korea, and Australia are ! Or if humanity diverge on different planets for 1 milliopn years or so in th future or something like that...
Load More Replies...And yet we still have Holo.caust deniers. Absolutely makes my blood boil.
Same. I wasn't around then to fight fàscism like my grandfathers were but I will do it now in the US instead
Load More Replies...During WW2, the Tuskegee Airmen were a group of black pilots who were given outdated planes because the U.S. military didn't believe they could succeed. In spite of the odds, they would have one of the lowest loss rates of any American fighter group and would earn over 850 medals for their service.
Disgusting that the US army was segregated in WW2, and remained so for many years afterwards. There were sometimes problems in British pubs who refused to make their bars white-only, so allowing all staff from US air bases to co-mingle. The Americans tried to stop them, but were told ever-so-politley to fock right off with that shít.
In 1995, 15-year-old Nicole van den Hurk was killed while biking to work in Eindhoven, Netherlands. Her murder went unsolved for two decades — until her stepbrother confessed to get police to reopen the investigation. Subsequent DNA testing then led to the arrest and conviction of her killer.
And appalling lack of determination from the police
Load More Replies...I'm confused - did her step-brother falsely 'confess' to get the case opened up, or was he in fact the killer?
He falsely confessed as he knew it would reopen the investigation.
Load More Replies...A drone captures an elephant herd sleeping while migrating across China.
She was 11 when WWI started, 36 when WWII began, 74 when Star Wars released, and 116 when COVID-19 started. Her name was Kane Tanaka, the world’s oldest living person until she passed away in 2022 at age 119. She was born on January 2, 1903.
5-Year-Old Boy Invites His Entire Class To Watch Him Get Adopted
You think you're being cute lampenny.... "Ninjas" you need to be blocked from BP!!!!!!!!!
Load More Replies...Lots of things. Puppies and kittens wearing bowties, for example.
Load More Replies...In 1962 a group of far-right French officers attempted to assassinate President Charles De Gaulle for his support of Algerian independence. One of the 187 shots fired was blocked by a framed picture of his late, mentally disabled daughter Anne that he took with him wherever he went. He was unharmed
So, 186 shots were blocked neither by the framed picture nor luckily De Gaulle's body.
A Massive 2700-Year-Old, 18-Ton Statue Of An Assyrian Deity That Was Excavated In Iraq In November 2023
Delicate and large stoneworks give me a strange anxiety. I always think about almost finishing the carving when the instriument slips, ruining the entire thing.
Feel , then, for the jeweller who had to make the first cut on the diamond that went on to be the Great Star of Africa on the sceptre of the reigning monarch of the UK. Apparently he fainted after his first cut was successful ...
Load More Replies...When gay rights activist David Kirby revealed his homosexuality to his family, they cast him out. But Kirby's family returned to his side as he lay dying of AIDS, captured in this photo taken by student photographer Therese Frare in 1990.
Look how far we came in just 40 years. From unknown virus with a guaranteed d*@th sentence, to experimental d***s, to greater understanding of the virus, to medication that can reduce the virus to undetectable amounts in the body - meaning that a person diagnosed with HIV today has every chance of living a normal lifespan. And yet the threat of all that progress being stripped away is very, very real because of political and religious decisions.
Too many religions are not much more than licences to hate everyone outside their churches.
Load More Replies...Once a meteorological research station of the Soviet Union, Kolyuchin Island is a 3 mile long island in the Arctic circle that was abandoned in 1992. In 2021, a photographer traveled to Kolyuchin and captured something unexpected: it's been completely taken over by polar bears.
A 900-Year-Old Crusader Sword That Was Found In 2021 On The Bottom Of The Mediterranean By A Scuba Diver
https://archaeologymag.com/2023/08/crusader-sword-found-in-mediterranean-was-bent-in-battle/
Hey! Did BP fix the hiding of links? This is the first time in a month I've seen a link that wasn't hidden.
Load More Replies...I think that's where the rabbit hole comes in
Load More Replies...Went to the Israel Antiquities Authority youtube page and they didn't have a video of the restoration. Maybe it's been removed or something. It HAS been 4 years.
In an incredible fusion of history and modern science, experts have brought the face of a medieval warrior back to life. He was one of many who fell in the brutal Battle of Visby in 1361
Probably that disabled him and then he got speared or stabbed. That doesn't look fatal, just awful.
The Tollund Man, The 2,400-Year-Old Corpse Uncovered In A Peat Bog In Denmark That Is So Well-Preserved That Scientists Were Able To Take His Fingerprints And Determine His Last Meal Before He Was Killed
The original post comments on the fact that there was a noose around his neck. He was hanged - hung? , probably as part of a human sacrifice.
At the 544-mile Sydney to Melbourne Ultramarathon in 1983, a 61-year-old potato farmer named Cliff Young showed up in overalls and work boots. While other runners stopped to sleep, Young moved continuously for five straight days. He would win the race and broke the existing record by two days.
As he obviously didn't run in his overalls (assuming this is the correct picture) now I'm left wondering, and hoping, that he didn't run in his work boots either!
There is a good tv movie or mini series (I can't remember which) made by the ABC called Cliffy about this. I hadn't heard of him until I saw it, being born in the 90s.
In 1947, Norwegian adventurer Thor Heyerdahl completed a 101-day, 4,300-mile journey across the Pacific Ocean from Peru to French Polynesia on a homemade raft built only with balsa logs and hemp rope — proving that ancient peoples could have made the same voyage
But they didn't. He proved that the technology available to them might have made it possible, but later research proved conclusively that the various migration routes he was proposing did not happen.
He did what he could with the knowledge available at the time. Respect is due.
Load More Replies...The Ocean Project — an international undertaking to catalog and identify the 1 to 2 million undocumented animals in the ocean — has just announced the discovery of 866 new species. These are some of their most stunning finds.
Click the gray letters under the photo to see more photos. They are very, very, strange.
There is a documentary about their work, annoyingly I can't remember which platform I watched it on.
A 1,800-Year-Old Roman Gladiator Arena That Was Discovered In Western Turkey In July 2021
Heck, there's a 2000 year old one still being used in Nimes (not for gladiators!). I've seen at least 3 concerts there.
The number of archeological finds found by people looking at Google Earth is astonishing.
The Sun has officially set in Barrow, Alaska, and it won't rise again until January 22, 2026
About the same for Grise Fiord, Nunavut, Canada at 76 degrees North latitude (Utqiagvik, as Barrow has officially been called since December 1, 2016, is at 71 degrees North)
Today was 37°C. Tomorrow it's supposed to be 41°. I don't think I could handle months without sun.
It was -14 last night where I live in Canada. Oddly I prefer that over your temps. 41C is intolerable.
Load More Replies...I'll send Al Pacino for further investigations, if you don't mind...he once was there when it wouldn't get dark, so...🤪 😜
More then "30 days of night", which is still a good horror movie set in Barrow.
In 1967, Robert Lawrence Jr. became America’s first Black astronaut. At his first press conference, a reporter asked if he’d have to sit in the back of the space capsule. Less than a year later, he was killed in a jet crash before ever getting the chance to go to space.
For my own peace of mind I'll assume the question was meant to be sarcastic, as a comment on still existand conditions.
He responded with a laugh so I hope the question was meant as a joke.
Load More Replies...Absolutely no part of that idiotic question was humorous, it was disrespectful and derogatory!!!!
The Irish Elk — the largest known deer species in history — which roamed across Eurasia until it went extinct approximately 7,500 years ago.
“Radium Girls” painted glowing watch dials with self luminous paint, licking their brushes to keep a sharp tip. No one told them the paint was radioactive. The radium settled into their bones, rotting their jaws from the inside. The condition became known as radium jaw.
I have read that the owners did know there was a danger but you know - profits.
Children in Dachau concentration camp cheer the arrival of American troops in April 1945.
After being left the night before his wedding, Ed Leedskalnin migrated to America and bought land in Florida. For the next 3 decades, the 100-pound Latvian built a 2.2 million pound wonder known as Coral Castle. To this day, no one knows how he carved and stacked 1,000 tons of stony coral by himself
They do know. We have pictures and eye-witness accounts that confirm Leedskalnin used primitive tools such as pulleys, tripod cranes, levers, and wedges. The limestone blocks he used were quarried himself from right next to his construction. Still an astounding feat.
Filming Apocalypse Now was so physically, mentally, and financially exhausting that Francis Ford Coppola had numerous breakdowns on the Philippines set in 1976. Dennis Hopper's drug use, Martin Sheen's binge-drinking, and Marlon Brando refusing to learn his lines all contributed to the film's chaos.
If you haven't already watch The Offer. A dramatisation of the making of The Godfather, another Coppola classic.
In 1954, a young Julie Andrews practiced ballet with her Aunt Joan Wells, who ran a dance studio.
In September 2018, a pair of fishermen in Northern Ireland reeled in a 6-foot-wide elk skull from the bottom of a lake. It turned out to be over 10,000 years old and from an extinct species known as the Irish Elk.
This is a moose. In Europe "elk" means moose
Load More Replies...German World War II era lesbian couple. Felice Schragenheim, a Jewish resistance fighter and Lilly Wust, mother of 4, wife of a Wehrmacht member. Hours after these photos were taken Felice was captured. She did not survive the war. Lilly never forgot Felice
If you tap on the name on the lower left side of the above picture you can read the full story. Heartbreaking and fascinating!
In the early days of social media, Kenny the white tiger became a viral sensation for allegedly having down syndrome. But the truth was much darker: Kenny was the result of repeated inbreeding by for-profit animal breeders. He suffered for most of his life and died when he was only 10 years old.
White Tigers are a highly inbred population and they have no conservation value. They should be allowed to die out. In fact most US tigers are mongrels of cross bred subspecies and largely useless for breeding and maintaining the wild population, due to greedy breeders keeping them as status 'pets'.
Load More Replies...That would be a fairly normal age in the wild, but in captivity tigers are more likely to live to 20.
Not when they are that fvcked up. He wouldn't have survived infancy.
Load More Replies...Sixty miles southeast of Anchorage is Whittier, a remote Alaskan town where all 272 residents live in the same building. Designed to be self-sufficient because of the region's extreme climate, the 14 story Begich Towers has a school, hospital, grocery store, and police department all under one roof.
hello 911? there's been a collision in the hallway of the sixth floor...
How long for the first responders to get there?
Load More Replies...In 1959, 15-year-old Jim Bishop bought 2.5 acres of land in Rye, Colorado for $1,250. Over the next six decades, he single-handedly built a 160 foot tall palace known as Bishop Castle that features a cathedral, sprawling spiral staircases, and a fire-breathing dragon made of recycled hot plates.
Then you're on the wrong webpage. Wikipedia has a nice entry and better pictures.
Load More Replies...I wonder how he had that much money at 15 - inflation makes it equivalent to a lot more in today's dollars, at least 10 k.
In 1978, Soviet geologists discovered a family living in complete isolation deep in Siberia. The Lykovs had fled Stalin’s persecution in 1936 and, for 42 years, survived without any human contact, technology, or knowledge that World War II had even happened.
They left because of their religion (not specified, according to wiki). They also had limited contact with the outside world, so may have had knowledge of WWII
Nevertheless, respect is due for their determination and courage.
Load More Replies...John Ratcliffe, Jamestown’s governor and the real-life inspiration for Disney’s Pocahontas villain, died a horrific death. After being tricked and captured, Pamunkey women cut away his skin with mussel shells, burning each piece as he watched. They saved his face for last, then burned him alive.
Identical triplet brothers, separated at birth, unexpectedly reunited while attending the same college
Deliberately separated. For experimental purposes. Not so great a story
Quite a few twins and triplets were split up so psychologists could study the nature/nurture debate.
A family in Harmans, Maryland pays respect as Robert F. Kennedy's funeral train passes through their town on June 8, 1968.
They had one for Queeh Elizabeth II (who was taken by air, but the train was for mourners from Balmoral to London) - en route, a load of excavators bowed to the train, and she was accompanied by tractors to the station at Balmoral.
Load More Replies...Looks like there might be a creek or river behind the foilage. The kids might have been swimming/playing in it while they waited for the train.
Load More Replies...The American "TV Dinner" was invented in 1953 and sold in 1954. McDonalds was founded in 1940 and then franchised in 1955. This was the era of fast food. So I don't understand your comment? care to explain?
Load More Replies...Twin sisters June and Jennifer Gibbons, known as “The Silent Twins,” refused to speak to anyone but each other, communicating in a secret language for nearly 30 years. Then, immediately after Jennifer’s sudden death in 1993, June began to speak freely for the first time in her life.
Not a happy story. They were sentenced, as children, to indefinite detention at Broadmoor, the most secure psychiatric hospital in Britain, home to many infamous murderers.
Broadmoor was a hospital for the criminally insane. My great-aunt's husband was incarcerated there after attacking her with a knife. So what crime did these sisters commit?
Load More Replies...Many identical twins have a secret language early in life they abandon about the time they start school.
Well this is just not true. They had a couple of distinct speech impediment and people couldn't understand them. The full story is a lot more interesting and quite heartbreaking . They also wrote obsessively so they certainly communicated with others
On 9/11, firefighter Scott Davidson — father of comedian Pete Davidson — raced with Ladder 118 across the Brooklyn Bridge toward the burning Twin Towers. Minutes later, he and five crewmates were killed while evacuating the Marriott World Trade Center hotel as the North Tower collapsed on top of it.
And ICE recently arrested a firefighter in front of his colleagues as they were fighting a huge forest fire, classy.
What do you expect from the people who want to join ICE ?
Load More Replies...In Victorian England, asylums housed everyone from serial killers to the disabled to the mentally ill — a dangerous combination compounded by the government encouraging the public to visit and observe patients like a zoo. These are portraits of some the patients confined to these institutions.
Some girls were put in there for the 'crime' of having a child out of wedlock. There is no record of any fathers being punished, however.
Police officers react after seeing the crime scene inside Andrea Yates house in the Houston suburb of Clear Lake City, Texas. On June 20, 2001, she waited for her husband to leave for work before drowning her five children one by one in the family bathtub.
she got severe postnatal depression with her pregnancies and doctor strongly advised against her getting pregnant again, but each time her ultra religious husband would force her to have another and another and another. she's come up for parole hearings but refuses to attend them and instead remains in prison. it's all so g*****n sad.
She and her psychiatrist told husband and mother in-law she should not have more children and should not be left with them alone due to extreme post partum depression and psychosis. But their religion knew better. Tragedy that could be avoided.
Theere should be a way to help get people out if these dituations, with the kids.
Load More Replies...Fkn religious bullcr.ap >.< When will people wake up?
The haunting “4 Children For Sale” photograph from 1948 captured a Chicago mother, Lucille Chalifoux, hiding her face as her four young children sat beneath a sign offering them for sale. Within two years, all of them — including the unborn baby she carried — were placed with different families.
At least two of these children ended up in a very a*****e home. They were essentially trafficked. The parents could put a roof over their own heads, but not afford their kids? I have zero sympathy for them.
Why? In 1938, sure.1948 was a time of unparalleled prosperity. I'm having trouble coming up with a legitimate reason why someone would be desperately poor during the postwar boom in a big city. There was a mild recession that started in late 1948 but it was nowhere near bad enough to account for this.
At least 26 petroglyphs — some dating upwards of 1,000-years-old — have become visible by shifting sands on a beach on the Hawaiian island of Oahu.
While renovating the Auschwitz memorial in July 2020, workers found a tattered pair of children's shoes with a handwritten note inside. Experts soon learned that the shoes belonged to a six-year-old Czech boy named Amos Steinberg, who was sent to the Nazi concentration camp alongside his mother.
Thankfully we don't have the stomach for concentration camps anymore (I say that, but they tried to open one right here in everglades, FL this year). But know the spirit lives on every time a family gets broken up and deported without any due process. It's functionally the modern equivalent to "putting them on the train...". Know this of your maga supporting friends and family. The scene in Schindler's list of the little girl sneering "bye Jews"... Go to yahoo/fox news comments on any deportation story...friggin scary.
Why not? The world needs to remember. Too many people have forgotten, look at the US
Load More Replies...A father and son pose for a photo beside a car in Omagh, Northern Ireland — unaware it’s packed with explosives and about to blow. Moments later, the car exploded and killed the photographer who took the photo, along with 28 other people, in the Omagh bombing in Northern Ireland on August 15, 1998.
Depends on the religion. Sometimes it's the religious who are the targets. Like China and Buddhism, or that one thing with Judaism, or the many years when Christianity was unjustly outlawed
Load More Replies...A Colorized Photo Of Grigori Rasputin With The Last Empress Of Russia And Her Five Children In 1908
Britain is still shamed by refusing to let the Tsar and family go there in 1917
This is an early automobile air conditioner, popular from the 1930s through to the 1960s. Water inside the cooler evaporates and in the process transfers heat from the surrounding air to evaporate the water, giving in return cool moisture-laden air inside
In the 60s and 70s, we shifted to 4-60 air conditioning - four windows down and going 60 mph.
And doggo with his head out of a window, blocking the view in the mirror but happy anyway
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