SERIOUSLY. museum shops should just be entirely full of replicas. i can't tell you how many times i've said "man i wish i had that cool little thing on my mantle"
you can get books anywhere, and nobody wants a coffee mug with the museum logo on it.
I WANT A MAJAPAHIT PIGGY BANK
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there's a similar thing in China, where every non-Han ethnicity is described as "and they love to dance!"
and i'm like "who tf doesn't love to dance"
Han people. that's who. Han people don't dance.
As someone who is from a culture where people dont like food i see the memes like “every culture likes food” and its like… i can tell youre not from rural small town america.
this holds up my theory that every country has a Texas—a kooky area where they have an inordinate amount of regional pride, talk funny, and for some reason stands in for the entire country in the eyes of foreigners
could be said about most widely-spoken languages, but the real bizarre thing would be to time-travel 1800 years ago to the Middle East and ask someone what they think would be the primary language of the region in 1800 years
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when people talk about the size of various countries, they're usually going by area *assuming the country was flat*
has anybody figured out the ranking of countries by actual surface area?
i'm guessing Nepal is gonna be way bigger
Yes. Uncivilized.
-no written language
-literally still in the stone-age
-no metallurgy
-no domesticated labor animals
-no rule of law
-practiced human sacrifice, child sacrifice
-regularly practiced cannibalism
-primitive farming techniques
TIL about one of the strangest people in recent African history.
Georges Ruggiu, a Belgian of Italian and Belgian extraction, was born to a working-class family, lived with his parents, and worked in civil service until he was 35. At that point, he had befriended a Rwandan...
rabbit-holing on Wikipedia while researching this lead me to one of the most depressing graphs i've ever seen
you see that big population gap, at 45? that's not due to WWII. not directly at least. the actual WWII gap is up above 65—you can tell not just by the math, but by the
this fact blew my mind when i found it out—Tashkent was the 4th largest city in the Soviet Union.
in general, people don't realize quite how big Uzbekistan is. i think most people think of Central Asia as being lots of open land with few people in it, but Uzbekistan has 38
What I find so horrific and fascinating about this story is, how the hell did this guy go from being a loser in Belgium with no connections to Rwanda to being the voice of one of the worst crimes in the 20th century in less than two years?
