Chocolate was invented by the Aztecs 3,100 years ago...but were they trying to create cacao beer? Links in comments.6yr ⋅ [deleted] ⋅ r/RedditDayOf
Is it still embroidery day? Everyday is embroidery day over here!7yr ⋅ fullmetalneedle ⋅ r/RedditDayOf
[Apr 27] Svalbard, Norway. The worlds most northern inhabited island. And home of basicly everything most northern. Inlcuding this, the most northern Lenin statue.13yr ⋅ Coffeh ⋅ r/RedditDayOf
I used to go kayaking here all the time as a kid: Lackawanna State Park outside of Scranton, Pennsylvania10yr ⋅ haltiamreptar1222 ⋅ r/RedditDayOf
Horton 02 wingless built in 1953, actually had short extendable wings.8yr ⋅ jaykirsch ⋅ r/RedditDayOf
Likely the most boring building in the city is the most visited by tourists - The Calgary Tower12yr ⋅ hippiechan ⋅ r/RedditDayOf
what the duck?! Lego's first toys weren't plastic bricks but a wooden duck.12yr ⋅ margot-tenenbaum ⋅ r/RedditDayOf
The ball court at Chichen Itza. Imagine kicking a heavy rubber ball through that hoop.13yr ⋅ Quarkity ⋅ r/RedditDayOf
The truth is that my childhood-favorite scary dragons live in the XKCD-generated pyramids of West Virginia.7yr ⋅ jaykirsch ⋅ r/RedditDayOf
'Fags' Australia's lolly cigarettes for children. Discontinued. Yes that's what we called cigarettes!12yr ⋅ Astro_nauts_mum ⋅ r/RedditDayOf
What your favorite Map Projection says about you. - a comic by xkcd11yr ⋅ margot-tenenbaum ⋅ r/RedditDayOf
[Mar 8] Swedish Suffregate Elin Wagner standing next to 351 454 signatures demanding voting rights for women. Picture taken in 1914. 7 years before women go the right to vote in Sweden.13yr ⋅ Coffeh ⋅ r/RedditDayOf
Henry Ford's 1941 Soybean Car (sometimes called the Hemp Car) plastic body used renewable resources, was much lighter than metal, dent resistant, could not rust - what if? (links in comments)6yr ⋅ jaykirsch ⋅ r/RedditDayOf
'Simple Alarm Clock' invented by Prof. Lucifer Gorganzola Butts, A.K., circa 19306yr ⋅ jaykirsch ⋅ r/RedditDayOf
Endo Naotsuga attempts to kill Oda Nobugana at the Battle of Anegawa. He penetrated the Oda clan’s lines, but was discovered and killed before he could complete his self-appointed mission.11yr ⋅ Georgy_K_Zhukov ⋅ r/RedditDayOf
[Nov 28] It IS real. And definitely the most testosterone pumping weapon ever conceived by man.13yr ⋅ On_The_Grass ⋅ r/RedditDayOf
[Mar 28] Map of the Great Wall(s) of China, organized by which dynasty they were built by. 13yr ⋅ RocketRobinhood ⋅ r/RedditDayOf
The Chinese practice of foot binding arose around the 10th century CE. It evolved as a display of wealth, showing that the woman had no need to work. It died out in the 20th century, finally being officially banned with the Communist Party's rise to power.10yr ⋅ Georgy_K_Zhukov ⋅ r/RedditDayOf
Map I'm working on for the D&D campaign I'm playing with my friends. Filling it out as we create more adventures.10yr ⋅ upstreambear ⋅ r/RedditDayOf
The Battle of Actium, in 31 BC, saw Octavian's forces defeat those of Mark Antony. The victory heralded the end of the Roman Republic, and Octavian's rise to Emperor.10yr ⋅ Georgy_K_Zhukov ⋅ r/RedditDayOf
After spending a week fly fishing in Yellowstone, I've decided to work there next summer. Wish me luck!12yr ⋅ wearsredsox ⋅ r/RedditDayOf
The Colonial Theater, Phoenixville, PA. Where they filmed The Blob and where I got married.12yr ⋅ TreasurerAlex ⋅ r/RedditDayOf
The Spartathlon is a 246-kilometre ultramarathon race held annually in Greece. It aims to trace the footsteps of Pheidippides, an Athenian messenger sent to Sparta in 490 BC to seek help against the Persians in the Battle of Marathon.9yr ⋅ CJ105 ⋅ r/RedditDayOf
Balut - A popular street food in the Philippines, it's a fertilized duck egg that is boiled and eaten with the embryo developed.9yr ⋅ sterling_mallory ⋅ r/RedditDayOf
SpaceShipOne- The first commercial aircraft to take humans into space8yr ⋅ Addicted2Weasels ⋅ r/RedditDayOf
Jan van Eyck - The Arnolfini Wedding (1434) : a painting of a perhaps marriage11yr ⋅ margot-tenenbaum ⋅ r/RedditDayOf
People are people wherever you go - There's no uniform in the world that's actually able to disguise their essential humanity - a photo from North Korea 13yr ⋅ kleopatra6tilde9 ⋅ r/RedditDayOf
I recently found out they stopped selling these, I was very disappointed. 12yr ⋅ aroymart ⋅ r/RedditDayOf
Dizzy Gillespie, his bent trumpet, and those iconic cheeks: I don't care much about music. What I like is sounds.11yr ⋅ margot-tenenbaum ⋅ r/RedditDayOf
Jacques Plante becoming the first goalie in the NHL to wear a face mask after receiving a puck to the nose during a game in 1959.11yr ⋅ barenakedone ⋅ r/RedditDayOf
Monarch butterfly have a yearly migration from NA to Mexico, to avoid freezing winter10yr ⋅ TheBlazingPhoenix ⋅ r/RedditDayOf
One trend in 'shopping' is specialty providers utilizing rapid shipping.6yr ⋅ jaykirsch ⋅ r/RedditDayOf
[Art] Kalki, who will appear at the end of this Yuga. In Hinduism at the end of four Yugas (lasting 8 billion years) all of creation will contract to a singularity and then again will expand from that single point, as the ages continue in a religious fractal pattern.10yr ⋅ fnord_happy ⋅ r/RedditDayOf
Rene Magritte - Threatening Weather (1929) : a surrealist painting10yr ⋅ margot-tenenbaum ⋅ r/RedditDayOf
The Runcible Spoon: A utensil suitable for runciation, an ineffable process first noted in 1871 by Norman Lear. (Links in comments)7yr ⋅ jaykirsch ⋅ r/RedditDayOf
Dr. Martin Luther King and other protesters at the Selma march. Dr. King is holding a wreath in memory of activist and Unitarian minister Rev. James Reeb who was murdered by white segregationists during the march.9yr ⋅ themanwhosleptin ⋅ r/RedditDayOf
Vincent van Gogh - Fishing Boats on the Beach at Saintes-Maries (1888)11yr ⋅ margot-tenenbaum ⋅ r/RedditDayOf
Liberty Leading the People by Eugene Delacroix. One of the most recognizable works of the Romantic period, it depicts the July Revolution, which saw the overthrow of the Bourbon Monarchy.10yr ⋅ Georgy_K_Zhukov ⋅ r/RedditDayOf
The dystopian society in Damon Knight's A for Anything is built around a machine that could duplicate anything, you name it--jet planes, money, people... especially people. The catch is that the duplicator couldn't clean a room, or cook breakfast, or comb your hair. You needed slaves for that...7yr ⋅ joelschlosberg ⋅ r/RedditDayOf
A photograph I took from the summit of Mount Washington in New Hampshire.10yr ⋅ deadowl ⋅ r/RedditDayOf
The famous three churches of Mahone Bay, Nova Scotia. Anglican, Lutheran, and United.12yr ⋅ yusernametaken ⋅ r/RedditDayOf
[Dec 7] I posted this to r/gaming with the title Just Cause 3. It made people upset. 13yr ⋅ Farisr9k ⋅ r/RedditDayOf
The German Boxer Max Schmeling (second from left) during his time in the Fallschirmjager during World War II11yr ⋅ Georgy_K_Zhukov ⋅ r/RedditDayOf
Geisel Library at UC San Diego. Named for Theodor Seuss Geisel, better known as Dr. Seuss.7yr ⋅ jaykirsch ⋅ r/RedditDayOf
Wile E. Coyote and that ever-present moment of recognition that restarts the laws of physics!7yr ⋅ jaykirsch ⋅ r/RedditDayOf
To quote Rich Hall ...that would be the equivalent of Jesus, Buddha, Mohammed and Carl Perkins in the same picture.12yr ⋅ newnowmusic ⋅ r/RedditDayOf
Tank : a spray painting stencil by graffiti artist Banksy used on the cover of the 2003 album Think Tank by the English alt band Blur10yr ⋅ margot-tenenbaum ⋅ r/RedditDayOf
The Standard Galactic Alphabet - if you played Commander Keen as a kid, you may not know that every sign you see is a secret message11yr ⋅ graaahh ⋅ r/RedditDayOf
Favorite prog rock of all time. Pink Floyd - The Dark Side of the Moon10yr ⋅ blankcanvas_ ⋅ r/RedditDayOf
43-Man Squamish - Entertaining the Functionally Insane and/or the Psychologically Divergent since 1965, but near extinction. (Links in Comments)7yr ⋅ jaykirsch ⋅ r/RedditDayOf
Why glider pilots love clouds - a personal report about flying a glider with the aid of clouds in the comments12yr ⋅ Lack_of_intellect ⋅ r/RedditDayOf
German picture alphabet; you can see similarities to English due to the common Latin root11yr ⋅ dcnairb ⋅ r/RedditDayOf
In Cayey, Puerto Rico, there are two mountains called Cayey's boobs, because of their symmetry and perkiness. 12yr ⋅ kequila ⋅ r/RedditDayOf
Garbage Pail Kids intended as a parody of Cabbage Patch Kids was mad into a cartoon series that never aired due to complaints. Here the complete set of trading cards9yr ⋅ sbroue ⋅ r/RedditDayOf
After retreating down the length of Greece as the German warmachine pushed into the country, the small British force enjoys their first good sleep in weeks after being evacuated for Crete and Egypt.10yr ⋅ Georgy_K_Zhukov ⋅ r/RedditDayOf
[7 July] At the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary, four Jamaican athletes defied their critics and competed in the bobsleigh, and showed true Olympic spirit.12yr ⋅ hippiechan ⋅ r/RedditDayOf
The Canadian Dollar is nicknamed a Loonie, there is a big Loonie in Ontario11yr ⋅ sbroue ⋅ r/RedditDayOf
Papakolea Green Sand Beach on the Big Island of Hawaii - A nearby cinder cone rich with olivine gives this beach the distinctive sand.12yr ⋅ sgrwck ⋅ r/RedditDayOf