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[MINI THREAD: TRADING HORSES, COWS, AND MEN]1/9Today's used-car salesmen were yesterday's horsetraders in more ways than one. Horses were a common trade before cars showed up. As modes of commute,

[QUICK THREAD: KASI]1/8On this day in 1954, a couple of Polish descent, the Kasners, had a baby girl in Hamburg. Friends would later address her as Kasi. Within 3 months

[THREAD: GRAZED BY APOCALYPSE]1/58Egypt and Israel went to war in October 1956 in what came to be known as the Second Arab-Israeli war in general, the Tripartite Aggression in the

[THREAD: THE WALL STREET JOURNAL]1/70Long before there was an America or an England, Roman ships were carrying wine and gold to India and returning with spices, silk, and exotic animals.

[THREAD: FOURTH OF JULY]1/60Long before there was a United States of America, there was British America, a subset of which was called the Thirteen Colonies, an assortment of European settlements

[QUICK THREAD: ADDITION TO 4TH OF JULY]1/5Interested in a crazy example of the "butterfly effect"? Here:The Great Bengal Famine of 1770 killed almost a third of the Bengali population. This

[THREAD: OF CLAPS & COMMUNISM]1/48How long should a standing ovation last? One study pegs the typical duration at 6 seconds, but what do you think? Say, that person is exceptionally

[THREAD: URDU CHAUVINISM]1/51By the end of the 10th century AD, Śauraseni Prakrit (a vernacular derivative of Classical Sanskrit) had started corrupting into regional dialects like Braj Bhasha, Awadhi, and Dehlavi.

[THREAD: THE LOCUST PLAGUE]1/26All that happens in S. Asia and Aus. directly or indirectly goes back to the fact that the Indian Ocean is landlocked on 3 sides with a

24/26Remember this swarm already numbered in the billions and multiplied by 20-100 every 3 months. By the beginning of this year, it has entered the Indian subcontinent. The situation was

[THREAD: AKSAI CHIN]1/50Napoleon Bonaparte and Czar Alexander met on a raft on the Neman River in July, 1807 to sign the first Treaty of Tilsit. Among the terms was Russia invading

He joined politics because he hated Jews. This one hates Muslims because it keeps him in politics. The two are as different, as incomparable, as it gets. (1/5) Tell this