A transferee from Reddit. Also the person who does those imgur meme dumps.
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Scotland’s first railway, the Cockenzie and Tranent waggonway, played a role in the Battle of Prestonpans (1745). The final piece of the line went out of use in the 1960s.
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The Last Stand by Sabaton was describing an event that happened in 1527, the year Henry VIII was trying to get an annulment. The events of The last stand played a role in the founding of the church of England.
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San Marino is so old it was founded before The Council of Nicea.
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The oldest Evidence in the archeological record we have of transgender individuals is older than the oldest archaeological evidence for gay couples.
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The first use of “OMG” was on a memo sent to Winston Churchill in 1917.
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India and Sri Lanka were connected by a land bridge until the 1500s. The remains of which are still a tourist attraction.
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The first scientific study into transgender people was published in 1896 and studies about transgender people were burnt by the Nazis. Don’t ever let people say transgender people are a recent thing.
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The Romance languages have been written down for so long that we can basically watch the evolution of multiple languages in real time through texts.
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Oxford university was founded before what would become the Maori settled in New Zealand.
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One of the last people born into (legal) Slavery in the USA died after being hit by a car in the 1970s.
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It’s possible that former Samurai lived to see the 20th century.
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