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[Science girl @sciencegirl]

This guy built a roller coaster to stop his fish getting bored

[The Footy Section @FTBLsection]

Back in 2020, Barcelona decided they no longer wanted Luis Suárez and sold him to Atlético Madrid for just £6.5 million.

Ronald Koeman informed him with a phone call that lasted just 40 seconds.

Luis Suárez:

"The call from Koeman to tell me that I wasn't in his plans lasted 40 seconds. That's not the way to treat a club legend.

"First he told me I wasn't in his plans, then he said that if I didn't resolve my contract, I would play against Villarreal.

"He lacked the personality to tell me things clearly, whether he didn't want me or whether it was the club's decision."

Suárez responded in the best way possible.

🏆 LaLiga winner with Atlético Madrid
⚽ 21 league goals in his debut season
And when he scored against Barcelona, he didn't celebrate...

He simply stared straight at the directors' box and mimed making a phone call. A moment nobody associated with Barça will ever forget.

[afro🔆 @afrosanemoia]

when yk your friend on bullshit but you support the vision anyway

[Poirot @Argenpoirot]

13 de mayo de 1995, Maradona visita a Pele en Río de Janeiro y se da este encuentro de las dos máximas figuras del futbol hasta ese momento. Una cena donde Pele sirve la mesa, una charla de futbol.

Se imaginan algo así hoy entre Messi y Cristiano Ronaldo? Creo que imposible.

[Kanu Reefs @Kanu_Riefs]

@SMarinka1 Lakens en hoeven

[Mike Netter @nettermike]

In 1897, the U.S. Army wanted to know if bicycles could replace horses for infantry. So they took 20 Black soldiers of the 25th Infantry – the Buffalo Soldiers – and gave them a mission: ride from Fort Missoula, Montana to St. Louis. 1,900 miles.

The “Iron Riders” carried 60-pound packs, rifles, and one spare tire each. They crossed the Rockies, the Badlands, and the Great Plains on heavy, single-speed bikes with no roads. Private John Findley fixed flats with strips of his own shirt. They drank from cattle tanks and were refused water in Wyoming towns.

It took 41 days. They averaged 52 miles a day. When they rolled into St. Louis, the white newspapers called it a “stunt.” The Army said “impractical” and shut the program down. But the Iron Riders proved it could be done.

Their commanding officer wrote: “No horse could have made it. These men did.”

[TASH @TASH__P]

ODB’s last album that never came out

[Natures Core @NaturesCorex]

I bet you didn’t know this 👌

[MT @MessiTouchline]

Didier Drogba:
“When Messi and some other players were promoting a beverage company before the 2010 World Cup, Messi met some people in a remote village deep in the African forest. He played football with them, but at the end, he said to me in a serious tone, ‘Didier, do you see these people drinking dirty water while we earn millions of euros?’

The next day, I heard from the company’s manager that Messi had donated his entire share from the advertisement to dig wells for the village and to build a good hospital, a school, a football field, and other facilities.

The best part was that he insisted his name not be mentioned in the donation. Six months later, Messi sent a doctor, an accountant, and an engineer to the village to make sure the money had reached the right people and that the projects were actually built.

Do you know the phrase that has stayed with me to this day? On the plane back to South Africa, I asked him, ‘Why all this secrecy?’ He gave me an answer I’ll never forget:
‘Because Africa doesn’t need advertisements; it needs action. Real deeds don’t need certificates!’

Messi’s greatest goals were never recorded on the field, but in the hearts of those who don’t even know football. And for those who do, they know Messi is the greatest player in the history of the game.”

[Dark Gable @seanston42]

This is why hip-hop became the biggest genre in the world, because it made EVERYBODY do this, yes it’s R&B but New Jack Swing is Hip-Hop, if Hip-Hop wants to get the top spot back, it has to make Everybody do this again, and them two in the back can’t dance for shit…😂😂😂😂💯

[AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @AfricanArchives]

The "Doll Test" was a psychological experiment designed in the 1940s to test the degree of marginalization felt by black children children caused by prejudice, discrimination and racial segregation.

In the 1940s, psychologists Dr. Kenneth Clark and Dr. Mamie Phipps Clark conducted what became known as the "Doll Test," a groundbreaking experiment that explored how racial segregation and discrimination affected the self perception of Black children in the United States.

During the study, children were shown two dolls that were identical except for their skin color. They were asked a series of questions, including which doll they preferred, which doll they thought was "nice," and which one looked "bad." Many of the Black children associated positive qualities with the white doll while assigning negative traits to the Black doll. Perhaps the most heartbreaking moment came when some children identified the Black doll as looking most like themselves after already describing it negatively.

The findings revealed the profound psychological impact of growing up in a society where segregation and racism constantly suggested that whiteness was superior. The study demonstrated that prejudice was not only shaping opportunities but also influencing how children saw their own worth and identity from a very young age.

The Doll Test became an important piece of evidence in the landmark 1954 United States Supreme Court case Brown v. Board of Education, which ruled that racial segregation in public schools was unconstitutional. The research helped illustrate that segregation caused real emotional and psychological harm to children, reinforcing the argument that separate educational systems could never truly be equal.

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[Emir Han @RealEmirHan]

Breaking Bad has an alternate ending on DVD where Bryan Cranston wakes up as Hal from Malcolm in the Middle — revealing the entire series was just a nightmare.

[Wale Gates @walegates]

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[Jean Jacques Dessalines 🇭🇹🇵🇸🇳🇪🇲🇱🇧🇫🇨🇺 @JeanJacquesDes7]

Argentina built its national identity on being European. It took a century of racial erasure to create that myth. But even its most famous export has Black roots.

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[Sarahh @Sarahhuniverse]

In January 1985, Diego Maradona defied Napoli's management to play a village charity match in Acerra, Italy, raising funds for a sick local child's life-saving surgery. Napoli's president opposed the match due to injury risks and banned its players from participating, but Maradona paid the insurance out of his own pocket. ❤

[Animals Fucking Dying 🐕 @AnimalNmlfckng]

Leopard Uses Her Own Cub to Lure a Meal😱😱😱🐆🐆⚒️🫎🫎

[Animals Fucking Dying 🐕 @AnimalNmlfckng]

The kakapo, the only flightless parrot in the world.

[Historic Vids @historyinmemes]

A 1996 Polaroid of Tupac Shakur posing with a fan, his phone number written directly on the photo.

By 1996, Tupac Shakur had become one of the most influential and divisive figures in music. Earlier that year, he released All Eyez on Me, a landmark double album that helped define West Coast hip-hop and elevated him to even greater levels of fame. The project arrived shortly after his release from prison and signing with Death Row Records, marking one of the first major double albums in hip-hop history.

Before the age of smartphones and social media, moments with celebrities were typically preserved in physical form—through Polaroids, autographs, or handwritten keepsakes.

The timing of the image adds further significance. In 1996, Tupac was just 25 years old when he was shot in Las Vegas following a Tyson fight in September and died six days later.

[Awesome Videos ❤️ @Awesomevideos07]

When Ryoyu Kobayashi shattered the ski jump world record.

[Untold Secrets @RealGemsfinder]

It looks like a dream, a cool idea!