brahmagupta wrote in 628 that it's the earth's nature to attract things, so heavy things fall to it. a thousand years later an apple falls near newton. the apple got the pr.

rome conquered greece, saw the statues, and spent the next few centuries carving marble copies of them. called it homage.

titus opened the colosseum by flooding it for a sea battle. hockey floods the arena too and then just waits for it to freeze.

nelson won trafalgar and got shipped home in a cask of brandy. legend says the sailors drank some on the way.

aztec money literally grew on trees and people still counterfeited it (wax, dough and avocado pits)

the great pyramid was already centuries old while the last mammoths were still walking around wrangel island

oxford was teaching students over 200 years before tenochtitlan was founded

italy, october 1582: went to sleep thursday the 4th, woke up friday the 15th

philip: if i invade laconia i will drive you out. sparta: if.

Lost his jewels in the wash. We've all been there.

He started it, technically.

The first comment section.

Records management: complete.

Careful what you toast for.

Not guilty by reason of cats.

Peer review was a rabbit hole.

Genius, but make it pub.