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India had a big problem on the eve of independence - 565 princely states! This visual essay explores how the country went from there to the current 28 states + 8 UTs pastlives.site/india-states

“Consider cotton prices," Malcolm said. "There are good records of cotton prices going back more than a hundred years. When you study fluctuations in cotton prices, you find that the graph of price fluctuations in the course of a day looks basically like the graph for a week, which looks basically like the graph for a year, or for ten years. And that's how things are. A day is like a whole life. You start out doing one thing, but end up doing something else, plan to run an errand, but never get there... And at the end of your life, your whole existence has that same haphazard quality, too. Your whole life has the same shape as a single day.” Michael Crichton, Jurassic Park

@ReviewsPossum Yea 1 in 200 Males alive today have his genes

Genghis Khan killed 40 million people, or about 11% of the Earth's human population at the time. A genetic study in 2003 found that 8% of men in the region of his former empire are descended from him or his relatives, which should give you an idea of how many women he raped.

@OrevaZSN I’m at a stage where I don’t even know the name of the show that they’re talking about

99% of socializing as an adult is just people telling you about shows and you saying, "Oh yeah, I’ve been meaning to start that!"

Marathon now means any extreme effort: a Netflix marathon, a study marathon, a coding marathon. The word has expanded from physical running to any sustained endurance. Where does it come from? A Greek soldier ran 26 miles to deliver news of victory, then died. We made it a sport. etymology.life/word/marathon

@weiss_hadas It’s culture, I respect the ones who relentlessly uphold it

guy who intervenes in every new twitter discourse to say no one cares

@litteralyme0 And created benzene and all the drugs possible on my notes

@heatdaddy69420 A saw a person eating a banana to recover potassium and I knew this guy knows how to party

Nobody talks about this but a lot of people don’t know how to party. It is a skill and it’s not easy to be good at it

@Arin_Yumi Yea no one chases clout anymore it’s aura now

When I learned that languages evolve and change over time, I found it hard to believe. But then I saw it happen right in front of my eyes. We no longer use the word “trolling” anymore. It has been almost completely replaced by “ragebaiting.”

What is a poet?

@UNGeneva What is a poet?

On today's #WorldPoetryDay, let's celebrate celebrate poetry —its healing power and the hope it brings. Practiced across cultures and generations, poetry connects us through shared values and our common humanity. buff.ly/pRe3DKk

@blockhim2026 🫶

HEY this is a bit sappy but I want to thank everyone who has ever been nice to me on here, ever laughed at one of my dumb jokes, ever encouraged my 10 day Guinness-fest and all my other silly antics. It’s never been more fun to be part of such a great group of e-pals 🫶 ily each

First day of spring, the sun hitting just right, it’s a weekend and already nailed a midday nap with the birds chirping outside and woke up with a calm energy All those old cultures were right friends, this is the natural New Year, the body doesn’t lie.

@politvidchannel This is heritage

BREAKING: bakeries across Denmark have started selling bright orange Donald Trump ‘moron’ cakes

The United States just bought $14 billion in oil from Iran. While we're In the middle of a war.....with Iran.

@teodorio Mind moving fast is crazy Mind slowed is saint Mind stopped is god

The slower your mind goes the closer you are to source there was a guy under a tree who spoke of this I believe

@jackmoses777 When you reach there, you realise there is no there

The entire spiritual path is realizing there was never anywhere to go.

Yeah right. The day the LLMs can overhear from across the room at 1am in a random party a conversation happening about a friend who's planning to go to Turkey, Istanbul, for their summer vacations and slyly go there and talk about Istanbul and the Ottoman Empire and the fact that Constantine the Great was made the emperor of Rome in York in England, of all places and then how he converted to Christianity, and it led to the second phase of the Roman Empire and hence Istanbul was at one time called Constantinople and…tell all this without one single phase turning cringe, cos the art is not the fact but the storytelling. The day lllms do this, ‘friends who knows the random trivia’ which is me, will happily retire.

llms have killed the 'friend who knows random trivia' industry

Twitter turns 20. What is your favorite tweet of all time?

@Ian_Schwartzman Yes the manifesto of done. We laugh at perfection and embrace imperfection. We do. We make it exist first and then make it perfect.

You’re better off starting and fine tuning as you go, instead of fine tuning so much that you never get started.

@_AllUpOnThat “Big man” right up there as well

The first man to call another man “boss” and it wasn’t his boss doesn’t know the impact he left on society