gnostek1 / 2Recorded farm attacks (4,308) and farm murders (806) from 2010 to the end of August 2023
01Between 1990 and 2020, over 3,000 farm murders were recorded by lobby group AfriForum's own count.
02South African police disbanded their dedicated Farm Murders Unit in 2007 under President Thabo Mbeki.
03Victims include farmworkers — predominantly Black — at higher absolute numbers than white farmers.
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01His Cyrus Cylinder, 539 BC, is the oldest known declaration of religious and ethnic tolerance by a ruler.
02Queen Tomyris of the Massagetae allegedly beheaded Cyrus and submerged his head in a skin of blood.
03He freed the Babylonian Jewish exile — ~40,000 people — and funded the rebuilding of the Jerusalem Temple.
gnostek1 / 3Radium painters working in a factory
01Workers were told radium was safe; they painted it on their nails and teeth for fun after shifts.
02Grace Fryer's jaw had to be removed in pieces — bone had turned to soft, glowing pulp.
03The 1928 lawsuit by five 'Radium Girls' directly shaped the first U.S. occupational disease labor laws.
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01Wii Sports sold 82.9 million copies, more than any sports game before or since, entirely via hardware bundles.
02Retirement homes in the US and UK adopted Wii bowling as a weekly resident activity by 2007.
03The Mii avatars players created for Wii Sports became their digital stand-ins across every Wii game they owned.
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01The pig's campaign slogan was 'They nominate a president and he eats the people; we nominate a president and the people eat him.'
02Abbie Hoffman and six co-conspirators were charged; Pigasus was confiscated by Chicago police and sent to a farm.
03The nomination was filed as a genuine political statement against both major parties at the 1968 Democratic National Convention.
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01Sejanus had eliminated Tiberius's son Drusus — likely by poison — to clear his own path to power.
02His children were executed; his daughter, still a virgin, was first assaulted by the executioner because Roman law forbade killing virgins.
03After his fall, the Senate ordered every statue, inscription, and monument bearing his name destroyed — a full damnatio memoriae.
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01Vespasian levied a tax on urine collected from Rome's public latrines, sold to tanners and fullers.
02He rose from a family of tax collectors and mule-drivers to found the Flavian imperial dynasty.
03His final words were reportedly 'Vae, puto deus fio' — 'Oh dear, I think I'm becoming a god.'
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01Paine wrote Part I of The Age of Reason in a single night before his arrest in December 1793.
02He was saved from the guillotine because a chalk mark on his door—the execution signal—faced inward, not out.
03The book was banned in Britain, and booksellers who sold it were sentenced to years of hard labor.
gnostek1 / 14Heracles , wearing his characteristic lion-skin, club in right hand, leash in left, presenting a three-headed Cerberus, snakes coiling from his snouts, necks and front paws, to a frightened Eurystheus hiding in a giant pot. Caeretan hydria…
01Honey cakes called 'meli' were physically placed in corpses' mouths as payment to pass Cerberus.
02Hercules' twelfth labor was to drag Cerberus from Hades alive — using no weapons.
03Orpheus bypassed Cerberus not with force but by playing his lyre until the dog fell asleep.