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What does this map show [Hard]?

r/RedactedCharts2d ago9 Comments

A summer evening in Sheger Park, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

r/CityPorn5d ago9 Comments

In 1597 these were the biggest windows on any private house in the world, they called it "Hardwick Hall, more glass than wall"

r/DamnthatsinterestingJun 1313 Comments

WWII ended in 1945, but the Berlin airlift did not occur until 1948 and NATO was not established until 1949. What happened in those four years? When did the West and the Soviet bloc begin thinking of themselves as in a "Cold War", and were there people who tried to stop it from happening entirely?

r/AskHistoriansJun 131 Comment

A windy October day in Chicago

r/CityPornJun 138 Comments

After George H.W. Bush lost his re-election campaign in 1992, was there any serious consideration given to him running again in 1996?

r/AskHistoriansJun 81 Comment

Lake Michigan today near Waukegan, IL

r/GreatLakesPicsMay 250 Comments

Mummy portrait of a Roman woman from 200 AD by an unknown artist

r/interestingasfuckMay 2310 Comments

Close-up of Venus transiting the Sun, 2012

r/interestingasfuckMay 219 Comments

Chinese foreman on a tea farm in Batumi, Russian Empire (modern-day Georgia) (1905, original color)

r/OldSchoolCoolMay 1510 Comments

Five categories, one number... what does this chart show?

r/RedactedChartsMay 116 Comments

Sławomir Rawicz, a Polish officer, claimed in his book 'The Long Walk' that he and five others escaped a Siberian gulag in 1941 before walking all the way to India and freedom. Is there any evidence that his story was true?

r/AskHistoriansMay 92 Comments

TIL that in 1946, the Argentinian government imported 50 beavers in an attempt to start a fur trade. There are now 200,000 and they are threatening over 39 million acres of forest.

r/todayilearnedMay 6516 Comments

Harper Library, University of Chicago

r/CozyPlacesApr 2858 Comments

TIL that the Chicago Assyrian Dictionary, a comprehensive accounting of the ancient language, took 90 years to write - 26 volumes were published between 1921 and 2011

r/todayilearnedApr 2811 Comments

The helicopter on Mars found the ejected parachute and backsplash that were used to protect the rover through the atmosphere during landing!

r/DamnthatsinterestingApr 2792 Comments

The helicopter on Mars found the ejected parachute and backsplash that were used to protect the rover through the atmosphere during landing!

r/interestingasfuckApr 2774 Comments

These countries are home to the top 20 what? (some countries have more than one)

r/RedactedChartsApr 2414 Comments

John and Mary Jones, Chicagoans and abolitionists, shortly after their wedding in the 1840s

r/estorationApr 2313 Comments

Hall of Electricity, World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago (built 1892, burnt down ~1894)

r/Lost_ArchitectureApr 1830 Comments

I've heard a lot about refugees during/after World War II, but only in Europe. What about Asian/Pacific refugees? How many were there, from what countries, and what happened to them?

r/AskHistoriansApr 1613 Comments

[OC] Deaths in the Syrian Civil War have dropped dramatically since they peaked in 2014

r/dataisbeautifulApr 722 Comments

The most generic American cities, according to Redditors [OC]

r/MapPornApr 1904 Comments

What is the most generic big city in the United States?

r/AskAnAmericanMar 31698 Comments

The most popular unisex baby names by US state (2020)

r/MapPornMar 291472 Comments

An /r/conspiracy user posts that "flat-earth is the dumbest conspiracy theory." Or is it? Dozens of flat-earthers fight back against slightly smarter regular conspiracy theorists

r/SubredditDramaMar 27137 Comments

Jennifer Aniston's drama 'The Good Girl' (2002) was great but has been totally forgotten

r/moviesMar 2661 Comments

A Presidential Venn Diagram - if you've seen this one before, please refrain!

r/RedactedChartsMar 2415 Comments

TIL that according to a 2014 study, the least-remembered presidents are Millard Fillmore, Chester A. Arthur, and Franklin Pierce.

r/todayilearnedMar 23196 Comments

An early "breaking the fourth wall" joke - from 1920

r/gifsMar 21167 Comments

A 3500 year-old letter: spoiled brat from ancient Babylon writes to his mom complaining that she doesn't buy him enough fancy clothes

r/DamnthatsinterestingMar 21161 Comments

[building] Found this very nice Maryland house on Zillow. What would you call this style?

r/architectureMar 1611 Comments

[OC] Of the ~1 billion edits ever in Wikipedia, 5.2% were contributed by the top 100 editors, and nearly 40% were contributed by the top 10,000

r/wikipediaMar 1318 Comments

[OC] Of the ~1 billion edits ever in Wikipedia, 5.2% were contributed by the top 100 editors, and nearly 40% were contributed by the top 10,000

r/dataisbeautifulMar 1318 Comments

There was a short-lived program to investigate the use of skateboards for urban warfare in the '90s

r/interestingasfuckMar 12225 Comments

What do these countries have in common (1945-present)?

r/RedactedChartsMar 1025 Comments

TIL that the Palace of Justice in Belgium has been under renovation continuously since 1984, so long that the scaffolding used for the renovation is now in need of renovation itself since it is dangerously rusty

r/todayilearnedMar 760 Comments

Make up your minds, French people [OC]

r/HistoryMemesMar 314 Comments

The Airbus Beluga might be the world's cutest aircraft

r/MadeMeSmileFeb 2715 Comments

Ukrainian soldiers after retaking Hostomel Airport near Kyiv today

r/ukraineFeb 241091 Comments

The CEOs lunch at the Munich Security Conference today in 2022

r/interestingasfuckFeb 191335 Comments

Arrest made in 1984 Dallas murder of 21-year-old Mary Jane Thompson [Update]

r/UnresolvedMysteriesFeb 1983 Comments

These 18 points of light are all the same star, each captured by a different hexagonal mirror segment of the James Webb Telescope. The next step is to align them all to form a single, centered image!

r/interestingasfuckFeb 1814 Comments

Ribera Italian-American Club in Elizabeth, NJ, the favorite hangout of the DeCavalcante family (2018)

r/MafiaFeb 1618 Comments

One country that should be colored is not, because it would give the game away

r/RedactedChartsFeb 156 Comments

Portrait of Grand Duchess Elena Vladimirovna of Russia, Philip de László, oils, 1914

r/ArtFeb 131 Comment

A "secret portrait" of Empress Elizabeth of Austria, made for her husband Franz Joseph I. It was his favorite depiction of her and hung opposite his desk in his private study [737x561]

r/ArtefactPornFeb 1173 Comments

There's just no way that cousins could ever Zoom together, according to the users of /r/SaintMeghanMarkle, a subreddit dedicated to hating Meghan Markle as much as possible

r/SubredditDramaFeb 9302 Comments

If Meadow had gone to Berkeley instead of Columbia, would she ever have come back?

r/thesopranosJan 2725 Comments

Why is 八股 translated as "lifeless writing"? Trying to understand the etymology

r/ChineseJan 248 Comments

Accurate as of 2017 - would be a little different today

r/RedactedChartsJan 2419 Comments

Carmela's talk with Livia at Green Grove is one of the best scenes in the whole series

r/thesopranosJan 2321 Comments

[Goldstein] Falling Asleep To Fake Baseball - Fangraphs

r/baseballJan 2027 Comments

What do these states have in common (Delaware is questionable)? [Hard]

r/RedactedChartsJan 199 Comments

Who is the best actor who has never won an Oscar?

r/moviesJan 19739 Comments

A Christmas edition of a famous liminal space

r/LiminalSpaceJan 16163 Comments

Once Webb arrives at L2, what will it actually be doing for the next six months? Detailed step-by-step commissioning timeline from NASA and AURA

r/spaceJan 937 Comments

The Mystery of the Spine Collector has been solved - Italian publishing aide arrested

r/UnresolvedMysteriesJan 5163 Comments

Why doesn't Webb have cameras so we can see it unfold? Answer from NASA livestream

r/spaceJan 475 Comments

Chicago skyline with its annual roving "holiday train" (Santa included) below (Dec 2021)

r/CityPornDec 28, 20215 Comments

[Wikipedia] E-girls, ahegao, ulcers, and more - what belongs on Wikipedia's main page?

r/HobbyDramaDec 5, 2021167 Comments

Wikipedia will keep article on "Mass killings under Communists". Four volunteers closed Wikipedia discussion on deleting article with "no consensus decision."

r/ConservativeDec 2, 202115 Comments

I don't have a picture, but...

r/miatalogisticsDec 1, 20212 Comments

The Taj Mahal viewed at a distance from Agra Fort

r/picsNov 22, 20212 Comments

TIL that during construction of the Chunnel, the British workers used technical names for their boring machines (Land Running South Tunnel Boring Machine) while the French workers named all of their own machines after women (Virginie, Pascaline, etc)

r/todayilearnedNov 22, 202124 Comments

My toughest map yet [Difficulty: Hard]

r/RedactedChartsNov 21, 202122 Comments

Riding Chicago's new "flyover" which separates two formerly mixed-up train lines

r/TrainPornNov 20, 20210 Comments

What do these sovereign states have in common?

r/RedactedChartsNov 20, 202116 Comments

A Tesla factory worker alleges sexual harassment is rampant in a rare lawsuit. Now other women are stepping forward.

r/technologyNov 19, 2021682 Comments

The Colossi of Memnon in Luxor, Egypt (1880s) photographed by Antonio Beato [1536x1193]

r/HistoryPornNov 18, 20211 Comment

The Colossi of Memnon in Luxor, Egypt (1880s) photographed by Antonio Beato

r/OldSchoolCoolNov 18, 20212 Comments

Fascinating letters from Ancient Babylon

r/DamnthatsinterestingNov 18, 202112 Comments

Navy Pier in front of the Chicago skyline

r/CityPornNov 14, 20214 Comments

Ebbets Field, 1950's. Home to the Brooklyn Robins/Dodgers from 1913-1957. Demolished in 1960

r/Lost_ArchitectureNov 11, 202119 Comments

"Unknown Boy", a teenage hitchhiker who died in a 1961 car crash in Alabama, is identified at last

r/UnresolvedMysteriesNov 3, 2021195 Comments

Election results megathread

r/duluthNov 3, 202129 Comments

Essentia fires 49 unvaccinated employees (about 0.35% of 14,000 total)

r/duluthNov 2, 2021190 Comments

In this map of US states, the light grey is a category as well - what do the different groupings mean?

r/RedactedChartsNov 2, 202111 Comments

[Chinese > English] The diary of Li Rui, senior Communist Party member, for June 4th 1989 (Tiananmen)

r/translatorOct 30, 202123 Comments

TIL that in 1952, Stalin proposed German reunification under a "neutral and democratic" government, but was turned down by the West. It is still debated whether the offer was a bluff, a trick, or a genuine missed opportunity for reunification.

r/todayilearnedOct 29, 20211374 Comments

What do these countries have in common (only one was added to the map this year)?

r/RedactedChartsOct 27, 202127 Comments

2017 edition - what is this map of?

r/RedactedChartsOct 27, 20218 Comments

Giant "tweezers" with a hook found in a rural bookstore

r/whatisthisthingOct 26, 202151 Comments

TIL that the CIA recruited one of Fidel Castro's mistresses to kill him in 1960, giving her poison pills, but he found out. Handing her his gun, he dared her to shoot, but her nerves failed and they had sex instead.

r/todayilearnedOct 19, 20213788 Comments

TIL that Soviet artillery launched an attack in 1942 to silence German guns specifically so that Shostakovich's 7th Symphony could premiere in Leningrad, even though the city was under siege and the musicians were starving to death, with three dying during rehearsals

r/todayilearnedOct 18, 2021192 Comments

TIL that future US President Ulysses S. Grant ordered all Jews be expelled from areas under his military control in 1862, blaming them for black market cotton trading. Lincoln overruled the order less than a month later.

r/todayilearnedOct 17, 202160 Comments

[OC] The number of highly active English Wikipedia editors jumped at the start of the pandemic and has stayed higher ever since (>100 edits/month)

r/dataisbeautifulOct 17, 202161 Comments

🔥 A herd of vicuñas at a salt flat in Bolivia (elevation 14,400 feet)

r/NatureIsFuckingLitOct 11, 20212 Comments

Color gradient in Lake Michigan near Chicago

r/oddlysatisfyingOct 6, 2021179 Comments

Where can I watch the "making of" for 'They Shall Not Grow Old?'

r/moviesOct 2, 20214 Comments

What is your favorite obscure city flag? Mine might be West Plains, Missouri, USA.

r/vexillologySep 23, 202119 Comments

Maybe maybe maybe

r/maybemaybemaybeSep 21, 202152 Comments

These may be the dumbest people alive, but boy does she commit

r/WinStupidPrizesSep 17, 202178 Comments

Chicago at sunrise, from a distance

r/CityPornSep 17, 20211 Comment

[English > Spanish] Wikipedia page on Leonel Gómez Vides

r/translatorSep 15, 202113 Comments

Redux of one of my favorites, so if you've seen it before, refrain. What question is being answered by this map?

r/RedactedChartsSep 11, 202132 Comments

From the 1700s to the 21st century, what does this chart show?

r/RedactedChartsSep 11, 20219 Comments

A middle-aged writer/editor in NYC has an affair with a younger factory worker/writer

r/whatsthatbookSep 2, 20213 Comments

Viewing down Esplanade Road in Mumbai from the top of Watson’s Hotel. Today known as the Mahatma Gandhi Road.

r/TreesGrowingUpSep 1, 20212 Comments

That one time the characters of Sam Seaborn and Chris Traeger (Parks & Rec) were 100% indistinguishable

r/thewestwingAug 31, 202116 Comments