- Robert Smalls
- Agnieszka Pilchowa
- Fridtjof Nansen
- Dorence Atwater
- William Dorsey Swann
- Milunka Savić
- Why the fuck isn't the movie Goldeneye about this absolute queen
- These two drag dads who met working at vaccaro's when they were 16
- Gao Xuan of the Kaifeng Jewish community in Ming dynasty China, who rescued the Torah scrolls from the water when the synagogue catastrophically flooded in 1642
- Agnes S. Lewis and Margaret D. Gibson, twin sisters, travellers, and scholars who spoke 12 languages between them
- George McJunkin
- Battle of Stamford Bridge but especially the lone viking on the bridge "whose name was not preserved in the aftermath of battle"
- James Barry
- Porphyrios
- Pelorus Jack
- The discovery of phosphorous by German alchemist and Thirty Years War veteran Hennig Brand: "Phosphorus must have been awe-inspiring to an alchemist: it was a product of man, and seeming to glow with a 'life force' that did not diminish over time...." - imagine spending years boiling thousands of gallons of piss in your alchemical basement lab trying to produce gold or the philosopher's stone or whatever and instead you make the first discovery of an element since antiquity
aug 29 2020 ∞
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