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@momentmemori And here i am sitting on sofa eating soji ka halwa feeling like a mughal badsha on takht watching rajpoot baddies

Jab Aurat, Moseeqi, aur Raqs apas mein mil jaye tu yeh dunia bahut haseen lagti hai

@anishmoonka That greek Librarian Eratosthenes story is brain consuming but I enjoy reading

Columbus pitched this exact trip to Spain in 1492. He said it was a 3,500-mile journey. The real distance is more than 8,000 miles. He survived only because two entire continents nobody in Europe knew existed happened to be sitting in his path. The first mistake was a translation problem. Columbus was working off a calculation by a 9th-century Persian geographer named Al-Farghani, who said one degree around the Earth was about 57 miles. That was correct, but Al-Farghani measured in Arabic miles. Columbus assumed Roman miles. Same number, different ruler. Roman miles were shorter, so his version of Earth came out 25% smaller than the real one. Then he made it worse. He read Marco Polo and decided Asia ran way further east than anyone else thought. So he redrew his maps to match. Japan ended up sitting right next to the Azores, the Portuguese islands in the middle of the Atlantic. The actual Japan is on the other side of the entire Pacific Ocean. He moved a whole country 8,000 miles to make his pitch work. Spain’s royal experts ran his numbers in 1486 and rejected him. They were right. They told Ferdinand and Isabella that Columbus had badly underestimated the size of the planet. He got funded six years later anyway, but not because his math improved. Spain’s long war at home had just ended, and they wanted in on the Asia trade before Portugal locked it up. A Greek librarian had already figured out the actual size of Earth in 240 BC. That puts him 1,700 years ahead of Columbus. The librarian was named Eratosthenes. He used a stick, a deep well in southern Egypt, and the angle of the noon sun on the longest day of the year. His answer: about 25,000 miles around. The real number is 24,901. He was off by maybe 1 to 2%, depending on the Greek length unit he was using. He did this with hand tools, almost 2,000 years before anyone built the first telescope. Columbus knew about that calculation. He just didn’t like it. The bigger number meant the trip was impossible. No 15th-century ship could carry enough food and water to sail 8,000 miles nonstop, let alone the 15,000-plus to actual eastern China. So he picked a smaller number that fit the boat. He got lucky. The Americas were in the way. The map in this post does work in a literal sense, but it cheats. Flat maps stretch everything sideways. Any east-west line looks straight on them, even when it actually curves on a globe. If you’ve ever flown to Tokyo, you’ve seen the flight path arc up over Russia on the seatback screen. The arc is the actual shortest route. Columbus’s plan was wrong. The map that makes it look possible is wrong in a different way.

@Benarasiyaa This gobar eating guwar always talking about gaye, nothing else

"Do people who consume beef, drink pig's milk?" UP CM Yogi Adityanath

@JMNewsNetwork_ Ameen to whatever bro is asking for

A Hindu father approaches a Mosque to pray for his daughter's wellness. 🥹❤️

@popularrabbit no I just discovered i have macropsia

Do you think I am fat...?

@clashreport That thing is bending extra to touch the wall

📸 Reza Pahlavi.

@mongo_lassi It’s petrol bro

You’re not Alexander the Great. There is no empire. You have a hybrid car and Slack. Keep the girl. Get the extra croissant

@emanmohsin34 Lol mati has nothing to do with his startup success

نہیں ہے ناامید اقبالؔ اپنی کشت ویراں سے ذرا نم ہو تو یہ مٹی بہت زرخیز ہے ساقی dawn.com/news/1994327 #pakistanhameshazindabad #Cursor #ProudPakistani

@Sita3812 Is this internet thing reading my thoughts??? 👀 no way this “do nain tere do nain mere” has been running in my head since i woke up and now I’m writing this comment here

do nain tere, do nain mere 🤌💚

officially al-bakistani

@harman_sidhu42 @punnu__khan Just finished listening, Shukria mehrbani dhanvaad

@punnu__khan Just listened his “apne dil ka malik hoon”. Beautiful piece.

remembering Maulvi saheb on his 7th death anniversary

@Rustum_0 I am 101% convinced that I haven’t tasted the actual biryani yet

To be honest, there is no Lucknow Biryani. U.P. had a tradition of pulaos, not biryanis. Every Muslim mohalla & qasba has its own signature pulao. I have tasted many and find them far more delicious than any biryani. This term (Biryani) has been popularised over the past decade by social media cooking channels, where families have begun relabelling pulaos as biryani. Yes, I find Lukhnawi Pulao more delicious than any other Biryanis on market.

@RohitMishra2024 Dk if it’s real but picture is giving weird vibe

Diljit Dosanjh, a globally recognised Punjabi singer and actor who has a net worth of ₹172 crore($20M) is openly proclaiming whom he really serves. In recent years, there has been a huge increase of Satanic symbolism in the Bollywood film and music industry.

@Neutrallens65 Man had it all but it slipped through his fingers cus of sheer clownery

Jiri Prochazka Vs Carlos Ulberg #UFC #MMA x.com/i/status/20431…

Islam Makhachev FIGHT DAY!!!

@SahafiScribe “British Pakistani who lives here and there”

I thought he was Pakistani 😭

kaam ki baat maine ki he nahi ye mera taur-e-zindagi he nahi ye suna hai k mere kuuch k bad uski khushbu kahin basi he nahi thi ju ik fakhta udaas udaas subh wo shakh se uri he nahi mujh main ab mera jee nahi lagta aur sitam ye k mera jee he nahin

@BibsBrams @SocialDigitally I will comeback to pick up my flag, enjoy croissants

@SocialDigitally I'm french.I swear, I’ve got a Pakistani coworker who slammed the door when he came in, dropped off some croissants without saying a word, put a Pakistani flag on the table, and then went back to his desk. 🤣😂😇🤣😂

Pakistanis across the globe walking into work this morning realising their country stopped another World War

@KantInEastt pajeets are waking up

Pakistan successfully mediating between US and Iran

The rush you get at 0:37 as a fan can not be explained