#cool history facts

[bobbyzombiegg]

A funny thing in bloodborne is that Molotov cocktails exist, which means that both WW1 and WW2 happened in the bloodborne timeline. Molotov cocktails are named after Vyacheslav Molotov, a Soviet Minister. During the Winter war between the Soviets and the Finns, Molotov claimed that the bombs they were dropping over Finland were actually humanitarian food deliveries, for their starving neighbors. In response, the Finn's named Molotov cocktails after Molotov to mock him. They said it was "a drink to go with his food parcels". Molotov was also extremely important in the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact between the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany just before WW2. Thus, these events had to have happened for Molotov Cocktails to be named so in Bloodborne. This is a joke obviously, don't take it seriously.

#ww1 history #ww2 history #molotov cocktail #vyacheslav molotov #winter war #finland #soviet russia #soviet union #bloodborne #soulsborne #cool history facts

[hussyknee]

i wasn't that fond of the love story of titanic but man the third act and the various tragedies that take place as the ship sinks just utterly wrecked me. the people screaming as they hit the ice cold water, the mother telling her kids a story, the orchestra playing....

The band was one of the best parts! They played what was a horrible, heartbreaking fate with so much self-deprecating humour. Having them play Auld Lang Syne while everyone was about to drown and panicking, and coming back to keep playing until the ship completely sank was an amazing choice, and it's also completely true to what actually happened. Every single one of them kept playing to calm the passengers until the bitter end, and died. That, and the people sliding off the deck as the ship tilted frantically grabbing the hands of the praying priest who somehow stayed standing, the people plunging to their deaths one by one, Molly Brown being the only one to ask the lifeboat to turn back and being threatened for it – man. "Afterward, the 700 people in the boats had nothing to do but wait. Wait to die, wait to live. Wait for an absolution that would never come." Unparalleled.

The love story was in many ways almost extraneous to what really made the movie work, but I think it anchored the rest of it, so that the narration didn't descend into chaos. Sometimes story elements have more sharpness and intensity when they take place in the periphery, kind of like seeing the passing landscape through a window vs. actually being in the thick of it.

#titanic #movie magic #cool history facts #asks #anon #pop culture #knee of huss

[amnhnyc]

Sunshine State residents, do you recognize this little neighbor? It’s the Florida softshell turtle (Apalone ferox)! Unlike many turtles, you might find this critter darting about on land or swimming rapidly in water. Its hydrodynamic, flattened shell, and four strongly-webbed feet help it to move swiftly. Softshells stick mostly to water and have long necks and snouts that they poke above the surface, like a snorkel, to breathe. Juveniles have more contrasting color patterns than adults: their carapace, or shell, can be olive, tan, or light brown with spots and a yellow rim.

Photo: kimberry, CC BY-NC 4.0, iNaturalist

#science #nature #natural history #animals #did you know #fact of the day #turtles #herpetology #florida #cool animals #weird animals #reptile

[bbyteach]

Uhhh sooooo NYC 80’s punk scene AU where ed used to play in bands when younger but not anymore & runs a popular venue and is totally burned out on the scene. Until a blonde weirdo wearing pastels started coming to shows there and he had to understand what is going on with this guy?? And the guy wants to learn more about this world and Ed confused but ends up having more fun than he has in ages??

#ofmd #blackbonnet #our flag means death #edward teach #stede bonnet #gentlebeard #ofmd season 2 #my draws #ofmd au #I rushed the first one to hammer it out bc last drawing of the year babyyyyy #one of Ed’s old bands was called ‘here comes the kraken’ #anyway he’s burned out on The Grind and all the bad bs in punk spaces overall #he’s not too cool to get flowers now in fact he welcomes the occasion okay #and uh. happy new year #oh and the venue is queen Anne’s revenge bc he’s a pirate history nerd maybe idk #punks and pirates seem like they are kindred spirits #for vastly different goals but… you know

[demisexual-eddie-diaz]

I’m a history nerd, please tell me Cool History Fact.

Thanks:)

#history #i’m probably going to major in history #history facts #tell me stuff #I am a bored nerd #help #cool history facts

[hellenhighwater]

huge shoutout to rejection sensitive dysphoria and the attorney who mentioned that I'd misspelled "forfeiture" in my notes, ensuring that I will literally never misspell that word ever again. Thanks, it's just what I needed. I would have rather been shot, but this works also.

#i am not even being slightly sarcastic #someone pointing out a minor inconsequential error like that will 1. be remembered for the rest of my life #and 2. ensure that I always ALWAYS remember the right way to do it #i usually have very good spelling and it drives me CRAZY when im wrong #so for 'forfeiture #which i always overthink and then misspell #it's either an unrequested out-loud correction of my spelling #or I have to use it as a computer password until the correct spelling is embedded in my hands #also shoutout to Sargon of the Akkad #who is the correct answer to a history trivia game I got wrong in fifth grade #cool how i will absolutely never forget that hes the first known emperor #despite the fact that i will literally never need to know that again

[bullshityounot]

I bullshit you not.

#random #cool stuff #interesting facts #slavery #abolition of slavery #american revolution #black history

[mikeru6]

here’s the first ever photo of a baby great white shark:D

this should be a historical event. petition to make April 13th international baby shark day. now.

#shark facts #sharks #shark #great white shark #baby shark #marine biology #biology #fun facts #random facts #interesting facts #facts #marine animals #animals #history #cool stuff #adorable #ocean

[hermitshell]

There's something so deeply despondent about a server that was once populated but grows inactive overtime, like instead of the world feeling fuller for how much people have given to it, it instead feels more empty because people Were here and they Did leave their mark. So where are they now? In universe it's just a tragic kind of horror, seeing a world left abandoned. Knowing it is not empty because it's supposed to be or because it's finished but where it's still just clinging on with one or two people left yet deserted. Like walking the streets of an apocalyptic city.

#turts talks #probably no need to tag it as anything :P #but this was in fact inspired by catching up on owen's nl series at 'bec gets introspective hours' #and it made me think about how an actually fairly common character plot in smps is the loneliness certain people experience after #everyone else has left #and i thought it was neat!! and cool!!! and it kind of tugs at my heartstrings!!! #because wow look at this beautiful world full of history #and look at the player wandering it aimlessly searching for their friends

[dastardly-dyke]

Someone tell me your favorite facts about anything, I need to absorb infinite amounts of knowledge like a particularly neurodivergent sponge

#history #cool facts #fun facts #bugs #lgbtq history #anything really #fungi

[trashworldblog]

the joyous whimsy puppet history provides is unmatched

#learning about the world and music is amazing #every episode my mind opens a little and i learn cool fun facts #i fucking love this show #puppet history #watcher #shane madej #ryan bergara #steven lim #watcher entertainment #the professor

[variousqueerthings]

Kilroy was here is a meme that became popular during World War II, typically seen in graffiti. Its origin is debated, but the phrase and the distinctive accompanying doodle became associated with GIs in the 1940s: a bald-headed man with a prominent nose peeking over a wall with his fingers clutching the wall.

#MASH #MASH history #had an urge to start making posts that are just like... random history #because ive seen so many cool facts on tumblr and elsewhere #i just like knowing contexts #hawkeye pierce #bj hunnicutt #kilroy was here #a lot of what i wanna do is actually based on the queer history filtered through the show

[amnhnyc]

Meet the sand cat (Felis margarita). This small, solitary feline inhabits arid regions—including Africa’s Sahara Desert and parts of Asia. Built for desert life, the thick soles of this cat’s paws allow it to walk on scorching sand during the day and cold sand at night. In parts of its range, daytime temperatures can soar up to 124° Fahrenheit (51° C) and then plummet to 31° Fahrenheit (-0.5° C) by night. The sand cat is also a “fearless snake hunter” known to pursue snakes (even venomous vipers) for a meal.

Photo: Cloudtail the Snow Leopard, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0, flickr

#science #nature #natural history #animals #cool animals #did you know #animal adaptations #fact of the day #cats #cat #caturday #feline

[tastycitrus]

What a rip-off! Grrrr...DC betrayed us!

gotham war sure was a lot of nothing huh

#gotham war #batman #amazing how pretty much everyone was like ''gotham war does not sound appealing in the slightest'' when it was first announced #and guess what? it did in fact fucking suck. #cool that i hopped on this train just in time to witness the worst event in batman history #dethroning war games of all things. which is far from an accomplishment i'd say #pretty much no one came out of this event looking good #not even the characters who were barely there because all they did was look stupid and job for NO REASON

[robbie-roo]

OK so fun Biology fact

if you are born of the female sex and you have a uterus and both ovaries you were born with the exact number of eggs you will have in your lifetime they don't multiply you have all of them at first breath. And that's cool in itself but then you think about your connection to your mother and your maternal line

because not only were you born with all your eggs your mother was born with all her eggs and her mother before that

you.

one of those eggs was you and that goes for all children your egg- the half of you that came from your mother was born with her.

isn't that amazing? you wanna know something else that connects you to your mother?

your mitochondria.

the mitochondria is only transmittable through the X chromosome. and it's thought to have been another organism entirely that ended up becoming part of your cell.

so not only was half of your existence already created with your mother's existence, but your mitochondria has also been shared through your entire maternal line.

there's an interesting way of looking at history through the lives of women... how many mothers ago was World War 1 for you? how many mothers ago was the death of king tut?

when you look at it that way doesn't time feel so small?

(pssst. some info here is wrong check my reblog)

#introspection #tw mother mention #i love my mom #feminism #maternal love #maternal line #history is written because of women #women #biology #biology facts #this got deep but i think its so cool to think about #im only three mothers away from WWI #history

[sizzleissues]

Frankly im going to explode if i don’t tell someone about this fic but i need to at least wait another month just in case. But i can only pester my non-miraculer friends so much with details

#sizzle rambles #Foaming at the mouth #at the thought of it #Its so indulgent guys #Everything i stand for - in a fic #If you’ve read these tags ill give one little thing about it #Ive been doing a shit tonne of research for the time period #(As its historical + (where im making up history but its inspired by reality) #So of course we’ve been doing fashion history research (and sketches) #I need to actually write down the facts ive learned for the fic but whatever #Anyway so currently its pulling a great deal from the 18th century #Rococo up to French Revolution times #What’s great about France being the centre of fashion is that im technically writing about french people #So its just so accurate and cool #So that’s the little thing about it #I wont spell it out but pay attention to my timeline #Its so much bigger than that as well #And like i probably wont execute the way it deserves #But oh boy ill pour my soul into it