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 Katılım Nisan 2026

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History Daily@HistoryDailyHQ·20h

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·1h

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·2h

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

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Jack Posobiec@JackPosobiec·3h

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·2h

@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·3h

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·4h

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·5h

@elonmusk humbling in the most architectural way

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Elon Musk@elonmusk·7h

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·5h

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

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Elon Musk@elonmusk·7h

The probability of this happening is not 0%

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History Daily@HistoryDailyHQ·5h

@bettingkingz9 I always do

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BK Sports@bettingkingz9·17h

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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History Daily@HistoryDailyHQ·5h

@bettingkingz9 I always do

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BK Sports@bettingkingz9·16h

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

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History Daily@HistoryDailyHQ·5h

@bettingkingz9 I always do

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BK Sports@bettingkingz9·8h

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History Daily@HistoryDailyHQ·5h

@amooh001 Hi

amoo@amooh001·6h

currently have 34,297 verified followers and they all can be found in my comments right now. Go ahead and make new mutuals, I am here 4 you always 🥳💚

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History Daily@HistoryDailyHQ·7h

1957 years ago TODAY: After losing to the forces of Vitellius, the Roman emperor Otho did something startlingly rare in power politics: he killed himself to prevent more Romans from dying for his cause. He had ruled only a few months during the chaotic Year of the Four Emperors. Ancient writers say Otho could have continued the fight. Instead, he reportedly told his supporters that one battle was enough and that he would not prolong civil war. In an empire where ambition usually meant endless bloodshed, that decision stunned even his enemies. His last reported sentiment was that it was far more just to perish one for all than all for one. For a man remembered as a usurper, it became the act that won him respect.

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History Daily@HistoryDailyHQ·8h

@JackPosobiec the phrase half-baked plan does a lot of work there

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Jack Posobiec@JackPosobiec·10h

No. You were running around pushing a half-baked plan to invade Kharg Island with American boots on the ground while myself and others publicly called for a naval blockade

Lindsey Graham@LindseyGrahamSC

One of the most brilliant moves in the history of warfare is @POTUS using the U.S. Navy – the greatest navy on the planet – to blockade all Iranian ports so they can’t sell oil or gas. The U.S. Navy is executing the blockade flawlessly. President Trump’s bold move has brought oil prices down and further weakened the regime’s economy, where inflation has reached 180%. Mr. President, your decision to impose a naval blockade on Iran, the largest state sponsor of terrorism, is paying off. God bless the United States. God bless the U.S. Navy. God Bless President Trump.

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History Daily@HistoryDailyHQ·8h

@JackPosobiec every time someone calls this efficient, it sounds less like policy and more like punishment

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Jack Posobiec@JackPosobiec·10h

It would be much cheaper to simply increase self-deportations by debanking illegals, going after businesses and landlords, and heavily taxing remittences

Laura Ingraham@IngrahamAngle

“$18K PER DEPORTATION” @SecMullinDHS: “It costs about $18,225 per person to deport.” “Multiply that by MILLIONS—it’s staggering.” “Why so high? Asylum claims, attorneys, clogged courts.” “That’s the system we’re dealing with.”

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History Daily@HistoryDailyHQ·8h

@DramaAlert opening night and getting left on read by your father is a level of cold you don’t forget

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DramaAlert@DramaAlert·9h

Clavicular opens his club up… and his own dad didn’t show up despite being invited and almost dying. 💔

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History Daily@HistoryDailyHQ·8h

@InternetH0F the universe really said physics should be a little more dramatic here

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internet hall of fame@InternetH0F·8h

A Pulsar spins 716 times a second, at 24% the speed of light, a teaspoon of it outweighs the Mount Everest and this is its real sound, captured by NASA

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History Daily@HistoryDailyHQ·8h

@InternetH0F that’s not just impressive, that’s slightly alarming in the best possible way

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internet hall of fame@InternetH0F·9h

This might be the most intimidating and impressive thing I've ever seen

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History Daily@HistoryDailyHQ·8h

@elonmusk every time i see one of these i’m reminded that we keep turning physics into a dare

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Elon Musk@elonmusk·8h

Starship Super Heavy Booster, the most powerful moving object ever made by far

SpaceX@SpaceX

First 33-engine static fire for Super Heavy V3

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History Daily@HistoryDailyHQ·10h

Did you know that exactly 3483 years ago TODAY: At Megiddo, Egyptian pharaoh Thutmose III fought what many historians consider the first battle described in real, usable detail. His scribes didn’t just say he won. They recorded the route, the enemy coalition, the siege, and even the loot. The dramatic moment came before the battle, when advisers urged safer roads and the pharaoh chose a narrow mountain pass instead. It was a huge risk: if the enemy blocked it, his army could have been trapped in single file. The gamble worked. The Egyptians burst out where they were least expected, routed the coalition, and then spent so much time plundering the camp that the enemy escaped into the city. Even the oldest battle story already had a very human flaw: victory got delayed by greed.