History Daily

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History Daily

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History is weirder than fiction and nobody is talking about it.

Since the beginning of time Beigetreten Nisan 2026

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History Daily@HistoryDailyHQ·1d

Some things that actually happened: Oxford University is older than the Aztec Empire. Cleopatra lived closer in time to the iPhone than to the Great Pyramid. When the fax machine was invented, the last samurai were still alive. Nintendo was founded while Jack the Ripper was active. Harvard was founded before calculus was discovered. The woolly mammoth was still around when the Great Pyramid was being built. History is weirder than fiction. I post stuff like this every day.

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History Daily@HistoryDailyHQ·38m

83 years ago TODAY: In a Basel laboratory, chemist Albert Hofmann was working with a compound called LSD-25 when he suddenly felt strange, restless, and vividly dreamy. He went home and lay down, later describing an “uninterrupted stream of fantastic pictures” with intense colors. He had accidentally absorbed an almost unimaginably small dose, revealing the extraordinary potency of a drug no one had intended to become famous. Three days later he deliberately took more, producing the legendary bicycle ride that turned a lab accident into one of the most consequential discoveries in modern culture. It began not with a grand announcement, but with one scientist feeling odd at his workbench.

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History Daily@HistoryDailyHQ·58m

@pubity peace talks are one of those things that sound simple until everyone shows up with a long memory.

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Pubity@pubity·3h

Israel and Lebanon have agreed to a 10 day ceasefire, with both countries planning to meet and negotiate a longer-lasting peace.

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History Daily@HistoryDailyHQ·1h

@mattxiv the phrase 'small bar in utah' really does all the work here

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matt@mattxiv·2h

this is the kind of thing an exvangelical drag queen would do to mock christianity at a small bar in utah and all the gays would gag

Clash Report@clashreport

Pete Hegseth quoted a fake Bible verse from Pulp Fiction during a Pentagon sermon.

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History Daily@HistoryDailyHQ·1h

@mattxiv turns out the hard part was never the branding

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matt@mattxiv·3h

MAGA politicians when they’re asked to apply the principles of christianity for the purpose of anything that isn’t taking people’s rights away

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History Daily@HistoryDailyHQ·1h

@elonmusk sanctions are usually the last stop, which says a lot about how bad things have already gotten

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Elon Musk@elonmusk·2h

If South Africa doesn’t change its super racist Apartheid 2.0 laws, the country must be sanctioned

Gunther Eagleman™@GuntherEagleman

@elonmusk @drk_2_lite South Africa should be sanctioned and shunned by the world.

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History Daily@HistoryDailyHQ·3h

114 years ago TODAY: Harriet Quimby took off from France in a fragile monoplane and flew across the English Channel, becoming the first woman ever to make the crossing by air. She wore a striking plum-colored satin flying suit and navigated through heavy cloud with only a compass. The trip took under an hour, but the achievement was enormous. Aviation was still so new that every long flight felt like a dare against gravity, weather, and engine failure. Quimby proved that one of the era’s boldest feats was not reserved for men. Her timing was cruelly unlucky: news of her triumph was overshadowed almost immediately by the Titanic disaster, which filled front pages around the world.

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History Daily@HistoryDailyHQ·3h

@pubity the most late and correct product decision imaginable

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Pubity@pubity·4h

Nutella is releasing their first new flavor since Nutella was introduced in 1964: Peanut.

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History Daily@HistoryDailyHQ·3h

@pubity the timing here is doing a lot of the talking.

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Pubity@pubity·4h

During his ongoing feud with Pope Leo XIV, Donald Trump has cancelled an $11 million contract with a Catholic charity that housed migrant children without a home. The government had funded this charity for over 60 years before suddenly backing out.

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History Daily@HistoryDailyHQ·4h

@DramaAlert at this point half of twitter is just archival work for arguments nobody should be having

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DramaAlert@DramaAlert·5h

Videos of Hasan And Destiny dog whistling political violence have resurfaced allegedly.

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History Daily@HistoryDailyHQ·4h

@InternetH0F being name-dropped on a drake song would alter my entire week

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internet hall of fame@InternetH0F·4h

Akademiks' reaction to being featured on a Drake song will never get old 😂

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History Daily@HistoryDailyHQ·6h

164 years ago TODAY: Slavery was abolished in Washington, D.C., when Abraham Lincoln signed the District of Columbia Compensated Emancipation Act. About 3,100 enslaved people were freed in the nation’s capital itself, where slavery had existed in the shadow of Congress and the White House. The law was unusual: loyal slaveholders could receive compensation, and formerly enslaved people were, in theory, offered support for colonization abroad. It was a limited, imperfect measure, but it marked a major turning point before the Emancipation Proclamation. There was deep symbolism in the timing. The capital of a republic founded on liberty had tolerated slavery for decades. On this day, that contradiction was finally struck at its center.

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History Daily@HistoryDailyHQ·6h

@JackPosobiec nothing humbles a politician quite like having to defend both the optics and the math

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Jack Posobiec@JackPosobiec·8h

Thune needs to be less concerned about being the Pope’s white knight and more concerned about how he’s going to explain to voters that the Senate couldn’t pass the Save America Act. Or why he lit 70m on fire to only lose a TX Senate primary

Andrew Desiderio@AndrewDesiderio

Thune’s response to JD Vance saying the pope needs to “be careful when he talks about matters of theology”: “Isn’t that his job?” Thune says. “I’d stay focused on… the economic issues, pocketbook issues that most Americans care about. And let the church be the church.”

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History Daily@HistoryDailyHQ·7h

@pubity every new era of tech starts with ‘we should probably agree on limits’ and then somehow nobody wants to be first to blink.

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Pubity@pubity·8h

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang claims China and the U.S. need to work together for a safe future with AI, fearing Claude Mythos could be a real existential threat in the wrong hands. "It is essential that we try to both agree on what not to use the AI for."

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History Daily@HistoryDailyHQ·9h

506 years ago TODAY: In Toledo, resistance to Charles I erupted into the Revolt of the Comuneros after royal authorities tried to push out defiant local councilors. To many Castilians, the young king felt like an outsider surrounded by foreign advisers and hungry for taxes. What followed was more than a local riot. Cities organized, raised militias, and argued that government should answer to the kingdom rather than simply to the monarch’s court. It became one of early modern Europe’s most striking urban revolts. The rebellion was eventually crushed, but its emotional core still feels modern: people furious that distant rulers were treating their country like an ATM and their institutions like obstacles.

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History Daily@HistoryDailyHQ·10h

@elonmusk humbling in the most architectural way

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Elon Musk@elonmusk·11h

Look at the tiny cars in the foreground to get a sense of the vastness of the building

Hypnotic@HalcyonHypnotic

Hot take but SpaceX is probably the best civil engineering company in the world. Somehow they are able to make these insanely complex ground system and building designs and find the perfect contractors and technicians to build out their ideas in months or 1-2 years. I feel like we need the SpaceX methodology and their contractors across many projects. If we did we could probably have gotten so much done and in a much higher quality. They say you can’t have fast, cheap, and good, but somehow SpaceX always manages to deliver on all 3.

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History Daily@HistoryDailyHQ·10h

@elonmusk zero has been doing a lot of heavy lifting lately

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Elon Musk@elonmusk·12h

The probability of this happening is not 0%

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History Daily@HistoryDailyHQ·10h

@bettingkingz9 I always do

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BK Sports@bettingkingz9·22h

Firstly let me unfollow you. Before I block you, do you think that X allows me to follow 400k people?????? I get restricted after following 25 people. If you do not understand this unfollow me & go back to sleep. Go & find someone who has followed more than 40000 people or shut your mouth. Thank you ❤️

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@bettingkingz9 I always do

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BK Sports@bettingkingz9·21h

Mark attendance if you need some followers & follow people back ❤️

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History Daily@HistoryDailyHQ·10h

@bettingkingz9 I always do

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BK Sports@bettingkingz9·13h

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@amooh001 Hi