TIL that the memorial sign dedicated to Emmett Till, a 14-year-old african-american boy who was lynched for whistling at a white woman in Mississippi in 1955, have had to be replaced four times because people kept shooting them full of bullet holes. In 2019, a bulletproof sign was finally erected. [source, comments]

TIL that scientists used a dating method to show a Viking ax cut trees on the North American continent exactly 1000 years ago, in 1021 C.E. This dating method uses a spike in solar radiation that left a mark in tree rings around the world. This proves the Vikings arrived before Christopher Columbus. [source, comments]

An Iranian-Azerbijani rug showcasing Soviet accomplishments in the Space Race, as well as portraits of cosmonauts Yuri Gagarin and Valentina Tereshkova (1965)
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@r_propagandaposters

Exceptions can be made.
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TIL that East Germany had an internet domain (.dd) [source, comments]

Es ist Musik-Mittwoch

every single day

based east germany