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May 7 • 19 tweets • 5 min read

Shakespeare's most iconic insults - a thread

~The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Act 1, Scene 2

May 7 • 9 tweets • 3 min read

Beautiful, well engineered infrastructure you haven't seen before - a thread🧵👇

1. The Banff Wildlife Crossing Project in Alberta, Canada, is essentially a bridge for animals & has reduced animal-vehicle collisions in the area by more than 80%🇨🇦

2. The Falkirk Wheel in Scotland, a rotating boat lift that opened in 2002. It connected the Forth and Clyde canal to the Union canal for the first time since the 1930s and is the only one if its kind in the whole world.🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

May 6 • 24 tweets • 5 min read

Photos of Hitler that he hated & wanted destroyed that we still have - a thread

May 6 • 34 tweets • 7 min read

People who found their doppelgänger at the museum - a thread 🧵

May 5 • 20 tweets • 7 min read

The island of Mont Saint-Michel - a virtual tour 🧵👇

As of 2021, only 25 people called Mont Saint-Michel their permanent home. However, tourism keeps the island alive, as more than 3 million people visit annually; it is France's second most popular tourist attraction, only behind Paris.

May 5 • 15 tweets • 4 min read

Unbelievably beautiful cloud formations - a thread 👇

Lenticular cloud in the same place for an entire day

May 4 • 13 tweets • 4 min read

Actual photos & videos of now-extinct animals (thread)

1. Footage of the last surviving Tasmanian Tiger, which went extinct in 1936.

The Golden Toad, native to only a 4 square kilometer region in Costa Rica, has not been seen since 1989 & was classified as extinct in 2004.

May 1 • 10 tweets • 6 min read

Brutal ancient torture methods 🧵👇

1. Scaphism: Victims were placed in two hollowed-out logs or boats, one inverted on top of the other. With their heads and limbs sticking out and their bodies trapped inside, the victim was force-fed milk and honey.

The torturers would smear the milk & honey over the victim’s body as well. Flies & other insects would be the first to arrive, but then the vermin arrived to not only feast upon the prisoners, but enter their bodies to fatally eat them from the inside out.

Tickle torture: The victim needed to be tied down & completely immobile. Their feet were dipped in saltwater & then a goat, attracted to the salt, would lick their feet. The cycle of dipping, licking, and tickling took a physical and psychological toll on the victim more and more the longer it went on. The uncontrollable laughter evolved into vomiting, loss of bladder control, and, in some cases, loss of consciousness.

It remains unclear if this method was ever used in practice as it is only described in the 1502 Tractatus de indiciis et tortura by the Italian jurist and monk Franciscus Brunus de San Severino – a treatise that actually cautioned against torture in general – and while it seems clear that Franciscus Brunus had not made up this practice, the issue is left open whether the inclusion in the treatise is based on hearsay, (reliable) eye-witness accounts, or personal experience.

May 1 • 12 tweets • 4 min read

Ancient swords & where they were found - (brief🧵)

1. This 900-year-old Crusader sword was discovered by a scuba diver off the Haifa coast

2. This 3,000-year-old bronze sword was discovered in the southern Bavarian town of Nördlingen in Germany.

Apr 30 • 7 tweets • 3 min read

The Roman Pantheon has stood virtually untouched for 1700 years. The iconic structure is the best-preserved building from ancient Rome and was completed in 125 AD during the reign of Emperor Hadrian… (brief 🧵)

The Pantheon’s dome, measuring 142 feet in diameter, remains the largest unsupported concrete dome in the world, 2000 years after it's construction. The building itself also remains intact, with only some work done in the third century.

Apr 29 • 23 tweets • 6 min read

Magnificent villages with the best views from above - a thread

1. Bourtange, Netherlands 🇳🇱 - population (2012): 430

Henningsvær, Norway 🇳🇴 - population (2018): 510

Apr 28 • 16 tweets • 4 min read

1890s colorized footage of daily life around the world - a thread

1. France 🇫🇷

Dublin, Ireland 🇮🇪

Apr 27 • 12 tweets • 3 min read

The Current Value of Famous Movie & TV Houses, according to Zillow - a thread

1. 'Home Alone' house - Zillow estimate: $2,484,500

'Breaking Bad' house - Zillow estimate: $352,000

Apr 27 • 37 tweets • 9 min read

Colorful towns & cities with the best views from above - a thread

1. Venice, Italy 🇮🇹

2. Casablanca, Morocco 🇲🇦

Apr 26 • 17 tweets • 6 min read

A history of Sagrada Familia + a detailed look inside - a thread🧵

Construction began in 1882 under architect Don Francisco de Paula del Villar, though he abandoned the project a year later. Here is his original design.

Apr 25 • 11 tweets • 3 min read

Footage of magnificent cities as they were a century ago, part 2 - a thread

San Francisco, 1906🇺🇸