Popular Fiction Storytelling Tropes and Historical Trivia

(Hated trope) Movies that attempted to be “progressive” that ended up just being the opposite.

A lot of early Christians would go up to Roman soldiers and beg to be tortured while the soldiers just stared at them in confused horror.

[Horrifying Trope] A version of you has to suffer everytime you do a certin thing.

A loco pilot stopped the train to save a bull from the track.

[OC] Pegtails - The Little Trashmaid

(Loved Trope) Fanatical Leaders with a cause I can get behind.

You have seen this moment a hundred times in Band of Brothers. This is one of the real ones. My father is on the right. 1944.

Wild Horses in Theodore Roosevelt National Park

Keira Knightley & Rosamund Pike Recalls Sneaking Cigarettes Around Donald Sutherland on Pride & Prejudice Set

[OC] Pegtails - The Little Trashmaid

None of this 'he somehow survived' nonsense

The conclusion of a century-long quest. VLT obtained firm evidence that Betelgeuse, a red supergiant star in the Orion constellation and one of the most famous stars in the night sky, is not alone!

Patrick Page - What a baller!

There is a National Park System site that you cannot go to, so I can’t fill the stamp square in my passport book

The crazy life of Robert Smalls

Happy birthday to Canadian runner and cancer research activist Terry Fox, who would have been 68 years old today.He ran the Cross-Canada Marathon of Hope in 1980 to raise cancer research funds

Can a man naturally stay hard just after cumming ?

I am Rachel Hope Cleves, a historian of sexuality. Ask me anything!

I am now fully convinced SE high command is under mind control

AI Companies Are Buying Antique Books, Ingesting Their Contents to Train Models, and Then Destroying Them at Incredible Scale, Even If Almost No Copies Remain

Spirit burn found dead in a ditch

Happy Birthday Richard Wright

A 16 year old lifeguard rescued a 10 year old boy who was being swept away by powerful waves in California.

Ever-increasing levels of population and resource consumption are not in the interests of future generations, scientists warn

You are among the last few survivors on earth after an apocalypse.

My list of sober celebrities :)

Some Folks Take Longer to Get There Than Others

“You gave humanity a common enemy.”

Were women in Victorian times hairy?

Obesity Among American Adults Aged 40–59 (2024)

An Orca hunts alongside a whaling boat in the Bay of Turembulerrer, circa 1900. In a practice dating back generations and originating with Aboriginal whalers, Orcas would often assist humans by leading them to baleen whales for harvesting, sometimes even towing their boats. [1024 x 576]

Little Help? 2011, Art by Rob Rogers for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Real life Leap of Faith: breaking the world record hay jump.

Ah yes, underage pregnancy is the solution to depression, give this man an award for creating such a solution that has no negatives

Chiune Sugihara: The Diplomat Who Chose Humanity Over Orders

Großes Schauspielhaus in Berlin built in 1919 closed in 1980 and demolished in 1985

8th-Century Pandya Marvels: The Dual Legacy of Vettuvan Koil and Kalugumalai Jain Beds

Their first instinct is always to protect others [by @anretoga]

AI companies are reportedly shredding millions of books after using them to train AI models — tech giants outsource to middlemen to secretly buy up books for training material

I’m not a comic book nerd or anything, but why aren’t there more Kryptonians in the Galaxy?

Jewish ppl sneak into NY pier at 12 AM with babies/young children

Reconstruction of Longtown Castle and its borough (England) in the 13th century

The secret society pulling strings from the shadows are the good guys

[Body Horror Trope] Holy Christ! There’s nothing left! (A Cyborg Character is Missing So Many of their Organic Components, their More Machine Than Person)

Don't forget what these People Did. DON'T FORGET THE EPSTEIN FILES

Harvard has created a rendering to show what the first human looked like.

The Parthenon (Athens, Greece), 1875–2026

Remembering the longest serving AMT

Bolshevik Revolution

By 2016 humans will be enhancing their intelligence with pills and computers!