[GUEST ACCESS MODE: Data is scrambled or limited to provide examples. Make requests using your API key to unlock full data. Check https://lunarcrush.ai/auth for authentication information.] [@historyinmemes](/creator/twitter/historyinmemes) "Kevin Parker the creative force behind Tame Impala has synesthesia a condition that lets him see colors when he hears music. This distinctive sensory experience frequently shapes his approach to producing and mixing tracks"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1945998954656936114) 2025-07-18 00:08:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 140.1K engagements "Neckerchief detail of the marble statue made by French sculptor Louis Philippe Mouchy in 1781"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1938993796316045636) 2025-06-28 16:12:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 279.1K engagements "Madonna on a bus New York 1979. Photographed by Dan Gilroy who was her boyfriend at the time. This was a time before she became famous"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1944248419910025506) 2025-07-13 04:12:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 921.5K engagements "The Qasr al-Farid known as 'The Lonely Castle' holds distinction as the largest rock-cut tomb within the archaeological marvel of Hegra situated in Saudi Arabia during the 1st century CE under the dominion of the Nabataean Kingdom. This ancient realm's dominion extended from the Levant to northern Arabia granting them control over the pivotal Incense Route traversing the Arabian Peninsula. The Nabataeans enriched by trade established opulent cities like Petra and monuments such as the Qasr al-Farid. Found within the archaeological site of Madin Slih in northern Saudi Arabia the Qasr al-Farid"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1689791878282063872) 2023-08-11 00:12:33 UTC 5.5M followers, 8M engagements "25 years ago Rockstar Games shut down Times Square overnight to capture the cover art for Midnight Club: Street Racing"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1942375075883139275) 2025-07-08 00:08:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 266.6K engagements "The night Conor McGregor shocked the world by knocking out Jose Aldo in XX seconds and winning UFC gold"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1947236609927393572) 2025-07-21 10:06:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 5.8M engagements "This is Nrdlingen a medieval city in Germany thats been built on a Meteor crater"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1942525567804530888) 2025-07-08 10:06:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 274.8K engagements "By combining scientific innovation and artistic creativity Kandenko a Japanese infrastructure firm uses smart-X conductive threads to illuminate miniature scenes crafting a narrative titled "Connecting Thoughts.""  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1779311105388478485) 2024-04-14 00:50:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 2.1M engagements "In 1883 the Krakatoa volcanic eruption was so intense that its explosive sound traveled 3000 miles equivalent to the distance between New York and San Francisco"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1943161257407975687) 2025-07-10 04:12:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 228.4K engagements "During the Algerian War in 1958 a French Foreign Legion unit came across a starving young donkey while on patrol in a remote area"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1941588896250462577) 2025-07-05 20:04:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 554.9K engagements "During WWII American soldiers made "sweetheart grips" for their Colt pistols replacing the standard handles with clear Plexiglas and slipping in photos of loved ones to carry into combat"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1937151154686742877) 2025-06-23 14:10:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 219K engagements "Kim Kardashian at her 8th grade graduation party"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1789339938267570271) 2024-05-11 17:01:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 18.4M engagements "The Ferrari F40 limousine crafted by Hollywood car builder Jay Ohrberg in 1987 is a bold fusion of supercar style and limousine excess"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1932317303158566935) 2025-06-10 06:02:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 294.8K engagements "This was Robin Williams final scene in a movie before the passed away. It almost feels like he knew it"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1938870987065577594) 2025-06-28 08:04:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 1.8M engagements "Right before Live Aid Freddie Mercury's doctor warned him against performing due to vocal problems. Defiant he took the stage and gave a 22-minute performance that a BBC poll later crowned the greatest live show ever"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1939746254684131577) 2025-06-30 18:02:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 997.3K engagements "In 1967 Paul McCartney left his passport behind while heading to France to shoot the music video for "The Fool on the Hill." When immigration officials questioned him he quipped "You know who I am so why bother with a passport photo" Remarkably they allowed him to pass"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1942617674384826708) 2025-07-08 16:12:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 207.6K engagements "Elvis Presley high as a kite doing kung fu is the best thing you will see today"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1944638490370625841) 2025-07-14 06:02:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 301.7K engagements "The US Navy released a clip of the USS Preble firing a secret laser weapon named "Helios""  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1944911791173288331) 2025-07-15 00:08:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 304.9K engagements "Footage of eruption of St. Helens in 1980"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1945725654877757476) 2025-07-17 06:02:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 334K engagements "This is Bolaji Badejo a 6'10" Nigerian graphic design student who was discovered in a London pub and cast as the terrifying Xenomorph in Alien (1979) his first and only acting role"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1942768166079221893) 2025-07-09 02:10:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 611.6K engagements "A man set a world record in 1986 by spending XX hrs in a cage with XX of the most venomous snakes species in India. To spread awareness and to prove that snakes don't bite unless provoked. He came out of the cage harmless without a single bite"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1944487998864953715) 2025-07-13 20:04:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 313.6K engagements "Kim Kardashian worked as Paris Hilton's assistant and stylist in the 2000s beginning around 2006"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1931954915124879387) 2025-06-09 06:02:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 7.6M engagements "In 2008 American stunt performer Travis Pastrana jumps out of plane without a parachute and took skydiving to whole new level"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1741887476153639108) 2024-01-01 18:21:51 UTC 5.5M followers, 90.3M engagements "When George Lucas sold the rights of Star Wars for $X billion and seemed to instantly regret it"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1946149446544191611) 2025-07-18 10:06:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 345.6K engagements "This is the earliest known photo of Elvis Presley taken with his parents Vernon and Gladys in 1937"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1947537593274413129) 2025-07-22 06:02:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 174.6K engagements "In 2005 a glass company set up a bullet-proof glass poster case containing $X million at a bus stop in Vancouver Canada. If anyone was able to break the glass they got to keep the cash. Nobody succeeded despite plenty trying"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1940805735341793479) 2025-07-03 16:12:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 1.6M engagements "Post Malone worked at Chicken Express during high school but was later fired from the job"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1942344373620122083) 2025-07-07 22:06:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 230.2K engagements "In 2002 during a visit to Japan Shakira saw a camera phone for the first time"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1943523643692306444) 2025-07-11 04:12:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 1.2M engagements "In 2006 a Filipino fisherman found a 34kg (75-pound) pearl but didnt know its value. He stored it under his bed as a lucky charm for a decade. Later it was appraised at approximately $XX million ranking among the largest pearls ever discovered"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1938419512023343324) 2025-06-27 02:10:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 405.4K engagements "A family of Xolos one of the most ancient dog breeds in the world"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1929992483938668771) 2025-06-03 20:04:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 518.9K engagements "Courtroom footage from 2006 captures Saddam Husseins reaction to his death sentence"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1929571711160357366) 2025-06-02 16:12:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 2.8M engagements "That one kid who has all the toys but nobody wants to play with him"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1942826551227134290) 2025-07-09 06:02:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 158.8K engagements "Elena Shushunova's move during the 1988 Olympics banned forever to even try"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1943975119363231805) 2025-07-12 10:06:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 947K engagements "Charlie Chaplin felt so strongly about fighting fascism against Germany in 1940 that he broke his silence for the first time ever to deliver this monologue"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1940289835966869865) 2025-07-02 06:02:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 7.1M engagements "Heath Ledger staying in character while exiting the hospital explosion"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1944094908706697511) 2025-07-12 18:02:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 771.2K engagements "A photo of Lydia Denton who at the age of XX invented "Beat The Heat Car Seat." a device designed to help prevent hot car deaths involving children"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1946210851691913542) 2025-07-18 14:10:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 148.8K engagements "Putin called the president of China Xi Jinping a "lone warrior" when nine of his staff showed up"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1945363266710212699) 2025-07-16 06:02:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 420.3K engagements "An unusual couple on the New York City subway 1980"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1848311769116115195) 2024-10-21 10:34:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 2.9M engagements "Thomas Jefferson the primary author of the Declaration of Independence died on July X 1826 precisely XX years after its adoption. He wrote the document's initial draft in only XX days in the summer of 1776"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1942645358372245889) 2025-07-08 18:02:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 123.5K engagements "In 1970s Wisconsin teenage Willem Dafoe got expelled from high school when a teacher mistook his bold student film project for adult content"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1945968252816929045) 2025-07-17 22:06:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 342.9K engagements "From the 1960s to the 1980s an abandoned landfill in Lower Manhattan became an impromptu beach where New Yorkers relaxed and played before the development of Battery Park City"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1943281046021165384) 2025-07-10 12:08:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 193.7K engagements "The Soviet union used an Atomic bomb to extinguish a blown out oil well in 1966"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1935852094415945746) 2025-06-20 00:08:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 554.4K engagements "German surfer Sebastian Steudtner conquered a massive wave at Nazar Portugal in 2018"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1941499808981627095) 2025-07-05 14:10:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 154.5K engagements "In 1986 20-year-old Christopher Knight disappeared into the Maine forest surviving alone for XX years by committing over 1000 burglaries all while remaining unseen"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1940833418071494730) 2025-07-03 18:02:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 1.3M engagements "Love him or hate him this 2003 Ali G interview with Donald Trump is a bizarre classic"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1915553948414488726) 2025-04-24 23:50:25 UTC 5.5M followers, 6.2M engagements "In 2010 Manny Pacquiao destroyed Margarito's career after he mocked his trainer Freddie Roach for having Parkinson's"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1900055325006336340) 2025-03-13 05:24:25 UTC 5.5M followers, 1.2M engagements "I still have no idea how people traveled these seas XXX years ago"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1938963094245646500) 2025-06-28 14:10:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 19.6M engagements "Gymnast Carrie Strug's vault that won Olympic gold despite severe ankle injury"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1940563137012682840) 2025-07-03 00:08:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 273.4K engagements "A man delivering a birthday cake on a bicycle in Cuba 1997"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1944187015366393873) 2025-07-13 00:08:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 1M engagements "Hedy Lamarr a 1940s Hollywood star co-developed a frequency-hopping radio guidance system for Allied torpedoes laying the groundwork for todays Wi-Fi and Bluetooth technologies"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1945304880744128993) 2025-07-16 02:10:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 529.4K engagements "In 2006 former AT&T technician Mark Klein discovered a door with no handle labeled "Room 641A" inside an AT&T data center in San Francisco. Behind it was a highly classified space known as the SG3 Secure Room operated in partnership with the NSA. Inside Klein learned was a fiber optic splitter that duplicated all internet traffic passing through the building. This allowed the NSA to monitor emails web activity and messages - not just international communications but domestic ones too. Room 641A had direct access to everything. It enabled surveillance on a massive scale bypassing warrants and"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1933647065902690650) 2025-06-13 22:06:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 2.1M engagements "The Twitter mascot Larry was sold for $34375 and blown up in the middle of the desert. and it was so satisfying"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1942358073827348678) 2025-07-07 23:00:26 UTC 5.5M followers, 1.3M engagements "In 2012 a teenager secretly lived in AOL's headquarters for two months eating free food using the gym and showers and sleeping in conference rooms while working on his startup"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1933103483391254543) 2025-06-12 10:06:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 900.1K engagements "Following Breaking Bad's rise in popularity chemistry enrollment surged as students were captivated by the show's thrilling and authentic depiction of science"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1940744330526044342) 2025-07-03 12:08:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 438.9K engagements "Buster Keaton was a legendary actor director and comedian known for his deadpan expression and insane stunts"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1943551326685647194) 2025-07-11 06:02:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 638.9K engagements "Judith Love Cohen was American aerospace engineer who helped create Abort-Guidance System that rescued Apollo XX astronauts. When she went into labor she took her work to the hospital printed out the problem called her boss and said she finished it before giving birth to Jack Black"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1942918658466164739) 2025-07-09 12:08:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 473.4K engagements "The last photograph of Bob Ross. He died on July X 1995 of lymphoma"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1939021478760194144) 2025-06-28 18:02:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 619.7K engagements "When Gucci found XX pairs of identical twins from all over the world"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1945879165254963665) 2025-07-17 16:12:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 1.9M engagements "In 1984 the Rajneeshee cult contaminated salad bars with salmonella in an Oregon city aiming to sicken residents and sway local elections in favor of their candidates. This incident remains the largest bioterrorist attack in U.S. history"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1946542536857919542) 2025-07-19 12:08:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 221.5K engagements "In 2017 Manny Ramirez inked a deal to play baseball in Japan securing a contract that provided unlimited sushi a Mercedes with a dedicated driver a hotel suite for away games and the option to skip practices as he chose"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1944580105235509367) 2025-07-14 02:10:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 167.4K engagements "During Star Wars filming Hayden Christensen admitted in interviews to having a crush on Natalie Portman playfully noting it was "easy" to act in love with her enhancing their on-screen chemistry"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1942586972306104595) 2025-07-08 14:10:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 579.3K engagements "Name a famous historic battle without Googling"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1684007656829100032) 2023-07-26 01:08:07 UTC 5.5M followers, 24.8M engagements "The imprint of a Mitsubishi kamikaze Zero along the side of H.M.S. Sussex 1945"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1939776956842512591) 2025-06-30 20:04:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 699.9K engagements "President of Serbia realizes he didn't read properly what he signed"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1947147522780115438) 2025-07-21 04:12:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 8.7M engagements "What's the most beautiful place you've ever been to"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1724102581192884282) 2023-11-13 16:31:02 UTC 5.5M followers, 3.5M engagements "John F. Kennedy smoking a cigar. Hed buy 1200 Cuban cigars the day before signing the US embargo on Cuba banning all imports from Cuba 1962"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1941831494340640903) 2025-07-06 12:08:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 425.6K engagements "Public executions in Ancient Rome were designed to be spectacular and entertaining. In one a man was made to climb a wooden volcano which collapsed at a given signal and opened into a pit of wild animals"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1933042078571020466) 2025-06-12 06:02:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 657.1K engagements "Footage from 1999 of people actually living in the moment no phones just friends laughs and memories"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1935247108711309607) 2025-06-18 08:04:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 393.3K engagements "On April XX 1972 Apollo XX astronaut Charles Duke the youngest person to walk on the moon left a family photo on the lunar surface where it remains today"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1946422747313377442) 2025-07-19 04:12:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 389.4K engagements "Imagine you get the $500000 question and it's this one"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1767196781304299699) 2024-03-11 14:32:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 28.8M engagements "Mac Miller gifted Ariana Grande a handwritten cookbook filled with doodles and notes including recipes for their favorite homemade dishes such as pasta and cookies"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1939082883190399117) 2025-06-28 22:06:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 441.4K engagements "Travis Scotts Rome show caused tremors equal to a XXX magnitude earthquake and fans in So Paulo said the ground was shaking blocks away"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1945424670653882676) 2025-07-16 10:06:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 491.7K engagements "In Las Vegas Nevada a man introduced his two-year-old son to the firefighter who rescued him from a burning house XX years ago an event that inspired him to pursue a career as a firefighter"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1943007745797427570) 2025-07-09 18:02:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 205.9K engagements "The biggest container ship in the world The Evergreen "Ever Ace" can carry up to 24000 containers"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1773425574666735694) 2024-03-28 19:03:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 7.7M engagements "John Lennon reading a letter predicting his death in 1969"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1941981986001989968) 2025-07-06 22:06:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 336K engagements "The final hole of Ninth Alternate John Daly as he does the unthinkable to win the 1991 PGA Championship"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1945937550633492794) 2025-07-17 20:04:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 136.2K engagements "The XXX km border between the Netherlands and Belgium runs through homes businesses and streets"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1946118744641503489) 2025-07-18 08:04:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 321.2K engagements "Jim Cramer telling viewers to hold Bear Sterns days before it plunged 90%. Bear Sterns was the fifth largest bank before failing and getting bailed out by JP Morgan and the Fed"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1731177565715419394) 2023-12-03 05:04:30 UTC 5.5M followers, 1.3M engagements "In the 1960s Lufthansa served pork and draft beer on board"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1947780192195232103) 2025-07-22 22:06:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 218.8K engagements "In 1988 now President Donald Trump talked how the US is getting ripped off with tariffs and his solution"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1940652225220751479) 2025-07-03 06:02:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 330.6K engagements "Battle Royale is a Japanese film that started the genre of open-map survival and likely inspired games like Fortnite"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1933195590684270853) 2025-06-12 16:12:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 651.5K engagements "In 1957 the U.S. military unintentionally dropped a 20-megaton nuclear bomb near Albuquerque New Mexico. The bombs nuclear core was not installed so it didnt detonate but the conventional explosives triggered creating a 25-foot-wide crater"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1947718787215851943) 2025-07-22 18:02:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 110.5K engagements "Three researchers invented the webcam to monitor a coffee pot's level remotely avoiding trips to the breakroom"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1942676059608010988) 2025-07-08 20:04:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 207.4K engagements "How Princess Diana found Prince Charles was cheating on her 1996"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1928785531229421767) 2025-05-31 12:08:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 3.9M engagements "In 1962 French President Charles de Gaulle narrowly escaped an assassination attempt when gunmen unleashed over XXX bullets at his car miraculously missing him and his wife who emerged unscathed"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1941045314200522784) 2025-07-04 08:04:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 267.9K engagements "When Star Wars began airing on television in 2003 Chile stitched the commercials into the films themselves to avoid cutting to commercial breaks"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1938179178559357095) 2025-06-26 10:15:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 3.7M engagements "Dustin Hoffman holds nothing back with Tom Cruise during the press tour for 'Rain Man' (1988)"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1947328716742570449) 2025-07-21 16:12:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 385.3K engagements "I wonder what Elon thinks of the Twitter mascot Larry being detonated in the middle of the desert"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1944398337911701609) 2025-07-13 14:07:43 UTC 5.5M followers, 1.6M engagements "Jack Black begged Led Zeppelin to use 'Immigrant Song' in School of Rock"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1947205907915604396) 2025-07-21 08:04:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 261.7K engagements "When Dana refused to give Khabib his belt after the McGregor fight"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1943311747894358317) 2025-07-10 14:10:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 18.2M engagements "Soviet-era phones lacking any dial keypad or buttons. These telephones were intentionally restricted to prevent the user from making outgoing calls. They were often installed in government buildings military command centers factories and offices of state security services"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1943400835091673439) 2025-07-10 20:04:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 184K engagements "There's a lighthouse in Iceland that sits on the highest of three rocks six miles off the Icelandic coastline built in 1939 on top of an extremely steep and dangerous rocky cliff. It's the rdrangar lighthouse"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1943130555320606838) 2025-07-10 02:10:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 369.2K engagements "In 2011 Prince invited Kim Kardashian on stage during a concert at Madison Square Garden to dance. When she seemed hesitant and did not move to his music he told her to "get off the stage.""  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1946481132570050671) 2025-07-19 08:04:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 5.5M engagements "A young secretary showing off the latest fashion and demonstrating the cutting-edge office tech of the time 1971"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1946754432684954065) 2025-07-20 02:10:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 215.3K engagements "Cameron Airpark Estates a California neighborhood next to an airport features homes with private hangars enabling residents to keep their planes on-site and taxi directly to the runway"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1943492941806215533) 2025-07-11 02:10:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 297.7K engagements "In 2003 renowned French chef Bernard Loiseau took his own life amid concerns about losing a Michelin star a story that later influenced the creation of Chef Gusteau in Ratatouille"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1943462239136289092) 2025-07-11 00:08:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 279.7K engagements "Matthew Joseph Medlin's mugshots over 14+ years"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1943582029066703294) 2025-07-11 08:04:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 9.9M engagements "In 2015 27-year-old farmer Kaleb Whitby miraculously survived a harrowing crash on icy Interstate XX in Oregon. His Chevy Silverado was smashed between two semi-trucks yet he escaped with only minor injuries requiring just a few Band-Aids and sporting a bruise"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1946450431355633699) 2025-07-19 06:02:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 145.7K engagements "One of the oldest video games made on the actual device around XX years ago"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1940381942957908279) 2025-07-02 12:08:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 1.3M engagements "One of the fake heads used as a decoy during the 1962 escape of X prisoners from Alcatraz. Made with soap toilet paper toothpaste and concrete dust"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1942193882114170925) 2025-07-07 12:08:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 999.9K engagements "There is no red in this picture; your brain is filling in the red color. The picture is made entirely of light blue black and white"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1947810894148170120) 2025-07-23 00:08:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 1.2M engagements "In 1985 pilot Scott Gordon encountered a tense moment high above St. Augustine when a malfunction occurred with the landing gear"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1942163179867369694) 2025-07-07 10:06:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 896.8K engagements "A gigantic LAN party Stockholm Sweden 1999"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1936033288616870225) 2025-06-20 12:08:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 1.9M engagements "The ancient Egyptian calendar consisted of XX months each with XX days followed by X additional days for festivities totaling XXX days"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1942706762878181640) 2025-07-08 22:06:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 328.7K engagements "26-year-old Ozzy Osbourne in 1974. He passed away today at the age of XX after helping raise $XXX million for charity. It was the highest grossing charity concert ever and I love that it was a metal show that did it"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1947763195889799221) 2025-07-22 20:58:28 UTC 5.5M followers, 2.6M engagements "In 2013 George Clooney gifted $X million in Tumi suitcases to each of his XX closest friends during a dinner party personally covering the taxes as well"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1946603941401112814) 2025-07-19 16:12:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 2.2M engagements "Michael Jackson dabs up Biggie. why did Biggie look so nervous"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1931653931723022823) 2025-06-08 10:06:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 11.9M engagements "ABBA in the studio trying to figure out the melody and lyrics to "Dancing Queen" in 1975"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1935759989018137057) 2025-06-19 18:02:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 396K engagements "Man simply eats leaves while being charged by a silverback gorilla"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1942012687824662639) 2025-07-07 00:08:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 373.5K engagements "Hundreds of thousands of people take to the streets of Belgrade in protest against Serbias president and government"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1901014108264411174) 2025-03-15 20:54:17 UTC 5.5M followers, 761.2K engagements "This was Saddam Hussein's final public appearance in Baghdad only XX minutes from approaching U.S. forces just before the city fell in April 2003"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1946966328809832857) 2025-07-20 16:12:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 471.6K engagements "Beck Weathers endured a catastrophic storm on Mount Everest one of the deadliest in its history and was presumed dead. Miraculously he survived though frostbite claimed both his hands requiring over ten surgeries. His remarkable ordeal inspired a book and the 2015 movie *Everest*"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1943732522241638750) 2025-07-11 18:02:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 786.2K engagements "This wasn't scriptedJane Russell got knocked into the pool but stayed in character"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1946874222275702845) 2025-07-20 10:06:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 778.1K engagements "Saudi Prince Al Waleed bin Talal Al Saud talking about his net worth"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1944792001926586557) 2025-07-14 16:12:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 196.8K engagements "Jack Karlson who became famous for his arrest during a "succulent Chinese meal" in 2009 was accused of using a stolen credit card although ultimately it was a case of mistaken identity things escalated as police tried to arrest him"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1932197514306089119) 2025-06-09 22:06:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 2.2M engagements "Saudi Arabia accidentally printed thousands of textbooks containing this image of Yoda sitting next to King Faisal while he signed the 1945 UN charter"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1939988853084901384) 2025-07-01 10:06:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 722.4K engagements "The Burger King close to Ground Zero served as a critical hub for first responders after 9/11 functioning as a command center. Located just steps from the debris it was essential in supporting rescue and recovery operations"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1943886031779942517) 2025-07-12 04:12:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 189.1K engagements "In 2007 a 20-year-old Lionel Messi was pictured bathing a baby for a Bara-UNICEF charity campaignthat baby Lamine Yamal is now a rising football star"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1945605865513349191) 2025-07-16 22:06:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 1.8M engagements "During WWII the Germans built a fake wooden airfield to deceive the Allies. After months of observation the Royal Air Force dropped a single fake wooden bomb on it"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1934159944900923544) 2025-06-15 08:04:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 895.1K engagements "That's how talented Phil Collins was in the recording studio"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1945667269465669657) 2025-07-17 02:10:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 298.4K engagements "Its wild to think people actually drank this stuff back in late 1800s"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1916550914661294234) 2025-04-27 17:52:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 735.5K engagements "World chess champion Magnus Carlsen slams table after losing to young chess prodigy"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1935339215077917150) 2025-06-18 14:10:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 5M engagements "Tupac shot two cops and stared them down in court"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1945787058888519829) 2025-07-17 10:06:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 6.1M engagements "Archaeologists have discovered huge spiral-shaped cylindrical structures stretching over XXX meters (about 2000 feet) straight down beneath the Great Pyramid of Giza. These massive findings located more than X kilometers (1.2 miles) below the pyramid's base hint at enormous hidden constructions deep underground"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1902787517725938146) 2025-03-20 18:21:10 UTC 5.5M followers, 8.9M engagements "Mexican homosexuals being detained in a police station in Mexico City 1935"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1885389842311180377) 2025-01-31 18:09:01 UTC 5.5M followers, 2.8M engagements "The Police's song "Every Breath You Take" written by Sting depicts an obsessive stalker fixated on a former lover. Sting is disturbed that many misinterpret it as a romantic love song often played at weddings"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1941349316846932014) 2025-07-05 04:12:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 544.9K engagements "Launched in 2004 Nike's MaxSight lenses offered athletes improved vision and a distinctive red-eyed appearance but were phased out by 2008"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1945756356859814170) 2025-07-17 08:04:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 697.3K engagements "Without Googling name one thing from Qatar"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1855648865141264420) 2024-11-10 16:29:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 539.9K engagements "James Gandolfini's final meal just before his fatal heart attack reportedly consisted of four rum shots two pia coladas two beers two orders of fried prawns and a large serving of foie gras"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1941650300181381549) 2025-07-06 00:08:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 3M engagements "As trees mature they gradually envelop and encase objects in their path with trunks and roots slowly surrounding and integrating these items into their structure over time"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1941195806259679723) 2025-07-04 18:02:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 220K engagements "Identical triplet brothers who were separated and adopted at birth only learned of each other's existence when X of the brothers met while attending the same college"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1907673707918635190) 2025-04-03 05:57:09 UTC 5.5M followers, 8M engagements "BBC News Reporter accidentally gets a contact high and cant finish report"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1646537902153760770) 2023-04-13 15:36:41 UTC 5.5M followers, 1.3M engagements "Ozzy Osbourne meeting his lifelong idol Paul McCartney (2001)"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1823967860126835027) 2024-08-15 06:20:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 2M engagements "Just two guys in 2003 who hadn't yet realized that they had made one of the best songs of all time"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1948081176649908690) 2025-07-23 18:02:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 591.7K engagements "In 2012 Frank Ocean playfully credited his dog Everest as the executive producer of his Grammy-winning album Channel Orange noting that his loyal companion was by his side in the studio during its creation"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1947024713789935728) 2025-07-20 20:04:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 134.5K engagements "Watch *NSYNC turn a crowd of people booing them into fans in less than X minutes singing the National Anthem at the 2000 World Series"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1947116820554526773) 2025-07-21 02:10:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 1.3M engagements "College sorority yearbook page from 1961. Imagine trying to find your girlfriend between classes"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1940262153589531027) 2025-07-02 04:12:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 559.1K engagements "When you're the only one left out of the XXX men"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1919050976385794240) 2025-05-04 15:26:21 UTC 5.5M followers, 515.2K engagements "An x-ray of a patient with hyperdontia (the condition of having more teeth than average). Usually adults have XX teeth. This person had 81"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1942857253918499327) 2025-07-09 08:04:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 2M engagements "Mila Kunis' grandparents survived the Holocaust and their experiences influenced her family's history and shaped her upbringing"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1941287912189932018) 2025-07-05 00:08:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 205.2K engagements "The greatest dolly zoom in all of history"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1948053493320937932) 2025-07-23 16:12:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 152.4K engagements "John Candy Tom Hanks and Eugene Levy hanging out with Daryl Hannah as she is getting turned into a mermaid 1984"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1945274178829213889) 2025-07-16 00:08:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 544.1K engagements "Bob Dylan gets interviewed by Time magazine in D.A Pennebaker's film "Don't Look Back" (1967)"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1947267312421081262) 2025-07-21 12:08:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 118.5K engagements "In 1960 during the USS Triton's covert 60-day underwater global voyage the only unauthorized person to detect the submarine was a Filipino man in a canoe who saw its periscope"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1941619597951611199) 2025-07-05 22:06:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 305.3K engagements "This fish and chip shop has the right to the name "Wendy's" in the entire EU and is battling the fast food giant since 2000"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1928997427098628320) 2025-06-01 02:10:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 262.8K engagements "The Rubik's Cube invented by Erno Rubik to teach 3D geometry has sold over XXX million units since 1980. Initially believing it unsolvable Rubik scrambled and solved it himself"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1943255125046264057) 2025-07-10 10:25:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 351.1K engagements "A Google ad from 1999 promoting its search engine"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1940320538574168196) 2025-07-02 08:04:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 927.6K engagements ""They shall not grow old": two South Vietnamese child soldiers sharing a smoke as they wait for a coming North Vietnamese attack Vietnam war 1965-1975"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1945000878252925252) 2025-07-15 06:02:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 232.4K engagements "During the 1970 Trooping the Colour parade a British foot guard collapses from heat and exhaustion as Queen Elizabeth II passes by despite the guards' rigorous training to remain motionless even at the risk of physical collapse"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1945154389322400067) 2025-07-15 16:12:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 390.3K engagements "In 2015 Anthony Bourdain revisited Borneo and received a traditional hand-tapped tattoo from the Iban people fulfilling a promise he made ten years prior"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1940864120292540521) 2025-07-03 20:04:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 809.4K engagements "In 2017 a truck hauling 7500 pounds of hagfish flipped on an Oregon highway spilling the eels and covering cars and the road in thick slime as they released their goo upon impact"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1940894822602363252) 2025-07-03 22:06:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 348.2K engagements "Clippy a paperclip-shaped assistant in Microsoft Office XX offered tips and shortcuts but was criticized as intrusive and discontinued after Office 2003"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1928331036536230223) 2025-05-30 06:02:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 406K engagements "Kanye West performing his poem '18 years' on Def Poetry Jam which was later added as a verse for his single 'Gold Digger' (2005)"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1856464992905666585) 2024-11-12 22:32:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 668.8K engagements "Its crazy Tina Turner did this without a harness in heels and at the age of 70"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1938238318535446618) 2025-06-26 14:10:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 864.5K engagements "In the early 1970s Jeremy Clarkson's mother created the first Paddington Bear toy making initial versions for Jeremy and his sister. The toy became a licensed product and its success funded Clarkson's education and helped launch his television career"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1942949360439898450) 2025-07-09 14:10:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 542.5K engagements "In Biertan Romania a church used a "divorce room" to counsel couples seeking separation. For two weeks they were confined together with only one bed chair table plate and spoon to share. Over XXX years this method failed just once"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1944761299633635346) 2025-07-14 14:10:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 250.7K engagements ""The Uncensored Library" launched on March XX 2020 by Reporters Without Borders with DDB Berlin BlockWorks and MediaMonks is a massive Minecraft map designed to dodge censorship by hosting banned journalism from countries like Russia and Saudi Arabia. Built with XXXX million blocks in a neoclassical style it started with articles from five nations later expanding to include Brazil Eritrea and a COVID-19 room totaling over XXX virtual books by 2025. Using Minecrafts global reachover XXX million playersit went viral with thousands of downloads won a 2022 Peabody and targets young gamers to"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1896656607062467024) 2025-03-03 20:19:07 UTC 5.5M followers, 635.9K engagements "Prince William's reaction when King Charles talked about his grandchildren's love for Pokemon"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1945697971653448092) 2025-07-17 04:12:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 268K engagements "The world's oldest underground station Baker Street England over XXX years apart. (Originally built in 1863)"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1947086118257926228) 2025-07-21 00:08:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 201.9K engagements "In the 1830s Dr. John Cook Bennett promoted tomato ketchup as a medicinal cure for issues like indigestion and diarrhea even creating pills from the recipe to sell as a health treatment"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1943824627354284465) 2025-07-12 00:08:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 163K engagements "The most transited border in the world between San Diego California USA and Tijuana Baja California MX"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1785182040695964151) 2024-04-30 05:39:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 15.6M engagements "In 1987 18-month-old "Baby Jessica" fell into a well in Midland Texas remaining trapped underground for XX hours. Her rescue gripped over XX million Americans watching live news broadcasts"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1942556270138904831) 2025-07-08 12:08:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 243.5K engagements "Flashback to the late '90s and early 2000s when Burger King partnered with Rugrats to include those iconic watches in every Kids Club meal"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1943913714664845499) 2025-07-12 06:02:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 125.6K engagements "In 1975 Gilda Radner auditioned for Saturday Night Live becoming the first cast member hired for the iconic show breaking ground for women in comedy"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1942282969470885957) 2025-07-07 18:02:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 173.9K engagements "Charles Daniels a photographer from the '60s to '80s has about 3200 undeveloped rolls of film filled with shots of rock icons like Jimi Hendrix and Led Zeppelin"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1942887955460411402) 2025-07-09 10:06:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 273.5K engagements "The LeBron James Nike commercial Swimming Pool (released in 2006) that birthed the popular "oh lord" audio"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1945092985068425672) 2025-07-15 12:08:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 172.4K engagements "The expression "the whole nine yards" originated with WWII fighter pilots whose ammunition belts measured XX feet (nine yards). Using the entire belt meant they gave "the whole nine yards.""  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1941862197207994526) 2025-07-06 14:10:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 264.9K engagements "After the 1980 Moscow Olympics Adidas who supplied the event's sportswear left their manufacturing equipment in the USSR who then used it to mass produce general-purpose trainers for military use"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1935640198525653248) 2025-06-19 10:06:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 306.5K engagements "Odell Beckham Jr. made one of the greatest one handed catch in NFL history (2014)"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1932590603302207491) 2025-06-11 00:08:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 141.3K engagements "One of the few photos of Helen Keller posing with her eyes open 1913. NOTE: white spots are from damage to the original photo"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1947691105056919760) 2025-07-22 16:12:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 584.6K engagements "Amy Winehouse's last performance in Belgrade wasn't just a concert it was a haunting chapter in music history. We lost her just weeks later"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1931322246230048832) 2025-06-07 12:08:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 8.9M engagements "Radio Man is the most famous homeless movie star who has been featured in over XXX Hollywood films"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1940925524404298109) 2025-07-04 00:08:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 383.2K engagements "Facing a severe drought in 2019 priests in India got X frogs married to gain favor from the God of Rains. Two months later the priests were forced to divorce the frogs to provide relief from the relentless rain that destroyed more than 9000 houses"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1932348005950353857) 2025-06-10 08:04:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 2.5M engagements "In 1998 Monica Lewinsky a 22-year-old White House intern presented a dress stained with semen confirming her affair with President Bill Clinton"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1943431537241755684) 2025-07-10 22:06:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 1.4M engagements "The Fata Morgana is an intricate mirage where images of far-off objects like boats on water appear to hover above the sea"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1938689792776249698) 2025-06-27 20:04:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 444.2K engagements "Mao Zedong gets shocked by the height of Henry Kissinger's wife"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1946180149193687104) 2025-07-18 12:08:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 4.1M engagements "The beat for Many Men was made by Digga in '99. It was first given to Camron then Nas - both passed. XX made history with it"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1932833202625789987) 2025-06-11 16:12:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 676.4K engagements "The earliest known surviving pair of socks from ancient Egypt 300-500AD"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1920177310365343874) 2025-05-07 18:02:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 589.4K engagements "Surya Bonaly 1998 Winter Olympics "first and last" backflip"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1945906848273748391) 2025-07-17 18:02:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 907.1K engagements "Do you think Epstein really killed himself"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1943744214283547123) 2025-07-11 18:48:28 UTC 5.5M followers, 291.8K engagements "In 1912 Danish explorer Ejnar Mikkelsen was photographed following two and a half years stranded in Greenland alongside Iver Iversen where they faced extreme isolation starvation and hallucinations"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1943069151242961198) 2025-07-09 22:06:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 489.5K engagements "In 2009 Muammar Gaddafi lured XXX Italian models to an event billed as glamorous but instead gave them copies of the Quran and his Green Book then delivered a one-hour lecture on Islam"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1942313672078156236) 2025-07-07 20:04:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 446.3K engagements "In 2016 Luna an 18-month-old German Shepherd fell off a boat swam X miles to an island and survived X weeks eating mice until the Navy rescued her slightly malnourished but healthy"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1943674136292966617) 2025-07-11 14:10:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 211.4K engagements "In 2009 a four-year-old boy from Essex discovered a 16th-century gold pendant just minutes into a metal detecting outing now showcased at the British Museum"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1945486076715335799) 2025-07-16 14:10:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 382.6K engagements "Your typical 1970s traffic. Almost every car was American made"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1947055416078467096) 2025-07-20 22:06:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 172.4K engagements "Coast Guard ship riding over the tsunami waves that hit Japan in 2011"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1941800791976857790) 2025-07-06 10:06:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 997K engagements "To this day I had no clue Billy Ray Cyrus sang this intro"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1944067226128330803) 2025-07-12 16:12:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 506.8K engagements "In 1996 a man faked being the cousin of FIFA World Player of the Year George Weah lied about playing for PSG and Senegal and convinced a Premier League team to sign him he actually played XX minutes before they realized he was a fraud"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1940050257980625055) 2025-07-01 14:10:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 2M engagements "When Bill Gates tried to explain the internet in 1995. and people laughed"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1948142580518015255) 2025-07-23 22:06:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 259.8K engagements "Three Decades later this man will play one of the greatest villains in film history"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1944156312968835136) 2025-07-12 22:06:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 545.6K engagements "Pink Floyd's The Wall forms a continuous loop as the closing track ends with "Isn't this where." and the opening track begins with ".we came in" This lyrical and musical link implies an endless cycle echoing Roger Waters' themes of repetition and circularity"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1942980063622033523) 2025-07-09 16:12:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 262.4K engagements "The Boeing Everett Factory is the worlds largest building by volume and covers almost XXX acres"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1946330640690868225) 2025-07-18 22:06:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 175.2K engagements "Adele singing "Someone Like You" as she's signing divorce papers is iconic"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1947298014680526987) 2025-07-21 14:10:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 223.2K engagements "This is one of the oldest songs ever discovered. Over 3000 years old - found on a clay tablet in ancient Syria"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1945817761097339129) 2025-07-17 12:08:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 379.3K engagements "In April 2021 India's lunar orbiter photographed the Apollo XX and Apollo XX landing sites providing evidence that refutes Moon landing conspiracy theories"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1947961385750540584) 2025-07-23 10:06:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 508.6K engagements "Autotune invented in 1997: Singers in 1996:"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1936607572376842505) 2025-06-22 02:10:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 13.2M engagements "It wont be long until these are in every home"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1943065515825475876) 2025-07-09 21:51:34 UTC 5.5M followers, 225.5K engagements "Behind the scenes of "The Great Gatsby" 2013"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1941920581777023411) 2025-07-06 18:02:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 563.9K engagements "Ben Affleck is distantly related to Princess Diana and XX U.S. presidents including Barack Obama his 11th cousin"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1943643433576575461) 2025-07-11 12:08:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 488.6K engagements "Photos from 1936 show a cat rocking a Brnnhilde costume straight out of Wagner's Ring Cycle with full-on armor and a winged helmet"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1941681002520379866) 2025-07-06 02:10:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 353.3K engagements "Chrysler offered Bruce Springsteen $XX million to use "Born in the U.S.A." in a commercial but he declined and continues to prohibit his music from being used to advertise consumer products"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1943219641691542006) 2025-07-10 08:04:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 169.5K engagements "In May 2021 a snorkeler in Norfolk Island (Australia) found a mans missing wedding ring wrapped around a fishs body"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1917671296890032393) 2025-04-30 20:04:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 761K engagements "The way Barack paused while talking whenever Kamala turned to look😂"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1941407702472867843) 2025-07-05 08:04:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 400.3K engagements "The greatest entrance in the history of music goes to James Brown back when the powder was pure"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1936395676176560558) 2025-06-21 12:08:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 1.6M engagements "Lady Diana falling asleep during an official royal engagement 1981. She was actually pregnant with Prince William at the time but her pregnancy had yet to be announced"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1933920365895405909) 2025-06-14 16:12:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 315.5K engagements "Federico Castelluccio (Furio) bought a painting at auction and had it restored for a total of $140000 then figured out it was actually from an earlier century and worth about $XX million"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1945243476616208538) 2025-07-15 22:06:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 869.3K engagements "Divers discover giant 'Doomsday Fish' off the coast of Taiwan"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1754236775646511106) 2024-02-04 20:13:34 UTC 5.5M followers, 50.2M engagements "Muhammad Ali despite suffering heavily from Parkinson's lit the Olympic flame to begin the Olympics games"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1945848463109022176) 2025-07-17 14:10:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 188.1K engagements "Miss Correct Posture 1956. At a chiropractic convention in May of 1956 in Chicago the contest winners were picked for the beauty of their X-rays and their standing posture"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1944457296425468131) 2025-07-13 18:02:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 185.1K engagements "Christina Applegate & David Faustino on his birthday 1992"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1946785135015206970) 2025-07-20 04:12:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 340.4K engagements "Michael Jackson realizing they're taking pictures of him every time he moves 1998"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1944306805045387488) 2025-07-13 08:04:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 570.1K engagements "In July 1977 a massive power outage struck all five New York City boroughs plunging them into darkness and sparking widespread looting and arson resulting in nearly 4000 arrests; the event became known as "The Night of Terror.""  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1942405778142331361) 2025-07-08 02:10:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 155.9K engagements "In 1870 Italy completed its unification by defeating the Papal States which contained Rome. Though his army was outnumbered the Pope insisted on symbolic resistance before surrendering resulting in XX deaths. Rome was captured and the Popes territory was eventually reduced to Vatican City"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1945544460714360943) 2025-07-16 18:02:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 563.5K engagements "The banned Dead Loop of Olga Korbut in the 1972 Olympics. It was the first and last time the trick was documented"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1939565060432466006) 2025-06-30 06:02:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 27.5M engagements "Robert Trujillo nailed his audition so perfectly that they not only gave him the role of Metallica's bassist but also $1000000 on the spot in 2003"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1948203985535377877) 2025-07-24 02:10:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 61K engagements "Conor McGregor devastated after losing to Khabib"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1944881089027186966) 2025-07-14 22:06:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 730.7K engagements "In 1983 the legendary Diana Ross drew a crowd of over 800000 people to New York's Central Park for a free concert"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1936576870025490837) 2025-06-22 00:08:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 179.1K engagements "Between 1946 and 1958 the United States conducted XX nuclear tests at Bikini Atoll including atomic and hydrogen bomb detonations"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1942043390197092547) 2025-07-07 02:10:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 1.7M engagements "In 1961 Queen Elizabeth Il visited Iran on an official royal tour. She met with the Shah explored ancient sites like Persepolis and experienced the heart of Persian heritage"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1928512231404118042) 2025-05-30 18:02:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 158.6K engagements "Throwback when Eminem was trying to promote his new album in New York"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1944850386827010357) 2025-07-14 20:04:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 582.6K engagements "In 2008 during a Baghdad press conference with Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki Iraqi journalist Muntadhar al-Zaidi hurled his shoes at U.S. President George W. Bush"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1937311865001918699) 2025-06-24 00:48:36 UTC 5.5M followers, 520.6K engagements "Woman pointing a gun at a computer for some reason 1998"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1898491118750454166) 2025-03-08 21:48:49 UTC 5.5M followers, 4.8M engagements "In Arizona's scorching 2017 heatwave air temperatures soared to 47C (116F) with concrete and asphalt reaching 76C (168F) leading to sagging mailboxes warped trash bins and melting road signs"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1943793925224857818) 2025-07-11 22:06:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 208.7K engagements "Khleo Thomas known for portraying Zero in the 2003 movie Holes won a Mortal Kombat tournament while costumed as Powerline from A Goofy Movie"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1943037944643928358) 2025-07-09 20:02:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 189.4K engagements "In 2013 two researchers in Antarctica achieved the continent's first recorded Tinder matchone based at McMurdo Station the other camping in the Dry Valleys roughly XX minutes apart by helicopter"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1943855329881854157) 2025-07-12 02:10:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 154K engagements "Tom Cruise and Will Smith on top of the Burj Khalifa skyscraper in Dubai"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1947841596315271440) 2025-07-23 02:10:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 1.2M engagements "In 1996 Bjrk attacked a reporter Julie Kaufman at the Bangkok airport. Kaufman claimed Bjrk attacked her after she said "Welcome to Bangkok""  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1945393968440562053) 2025-07-16 08:04:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 2.7M engagements "10 years ago this dress was posted on tumblr causing a viral debate on whether it was blue and black or white and gold. The phenomenon revealed differences in human color perception and became the subject of scientific investigations into neuroscience and vision science"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1939687869221933566) 2025-06-30 14:10:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 2M engagements "This was Kim Kardashian before the fame and the billions"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1927397383945732587) 2025-05-27 16:12:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 2.8M engagements "Richard Lasher was on his way to ride his dirt bike when Mt. St. Helens erupted in front of him"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1934282753803010303) 2025-06-15 16:12:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 581.4K engagements "The difference in floodwater cleanliness in subways: USA vs Japan"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1937602629669904473) 2025-06-24 20:04:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 17.8M engagements "Shaharah Bridge is a 17th-century limestone marvel in Yemens Ahnum Mountains spanning a 300ft gorge to connect villages designed to collapse swiftly against invaders and solve ancient trade challenges"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1939233374637564321) 2025-06-29 08:04:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 250.1K engagements "In April 2012 a team of researchers intentionally conducted a controlled crash of a former Alaska Airlines Boeing XXX. This event took place in Mexico and aimed to investigate a genuine aircraft crash scenario. While many believe that surviving a plane crash is unlikely this study revealed a different reality. The research indicated that passengers seated in the aircraft's front section were most vulnerable during the simulation. Individuals situated near the wings might sustain injuries but these injuries were not deemed life-threatening. Interestingly passengers positioned at the back of"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1688689975070453760) 2023-08-07 23:13:59 UTC 5.5M followers, 20M engagements "Kevin Hart allegedly caught on camera in Diddy freak off video"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1839716578876662251) 2024-09-27 17:19:47 UTC 5.5M followers, 399.5K engagements "Kary Perry turned down this collaboration so Gotye found a girl with similar look and voice to her"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1936515465569837314) 2025-06-21 20:04:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 3M engagements "Mike Posner wrote 'Boyfriend' for himself before his label made him give it to Justin Bieber"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1935216406129426478) 2025-06-18 06:02:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 236K engagements "Sissel Kyrkjeb the singer you never knew was behind Titanic's score"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1942494865389977998) 2025-07-08 08:04:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 205K engagements "The insane evolution of artificial intelligence in just XX months"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1947387101688758610) 2025-07-21 20:04:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 165.5K engagements "Hawaiian pizza was invented in Canada in 1962 by a Greek immigrant who added canned pineapplenamed after the brand usedinspired by Chinese sweet-savory flavors. It gained global popularity especially in Australia"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1930385574134718554) 2025-06-04 22:06:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 865.5K engagements "In 1990 two men executed the largest art heist in U.S. history stealing $XXX million in artwork by overpowering and tying up museum guards. Described as courteous they checked on the guards' well-being before fleeing. The case remains unsolved"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1944699895081783520) 2025-07-14 10:06:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 316.6K engagements "The Notorious B.I.G. performed his final concert in a wheelchair on December XX 1996"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1946511834472747416) 2025-07-19 10:06:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 466.5K engagements "Leslie Nielsen was known to bring a fart machine to his interviews and press appearances"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1942132477738594602) 2025-07-07 08:04:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 242.6K engagements "A rare photo of North Korean leader Kim Il Sung showing a tumor on his neck. Photographers were forbidden to photograph the right side of his face (1980s)"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1944036523948855801) 2025-07-12 14:10:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 451.3K engagements "37-year-old news broadcast from early May 1988 when there was a growing panic that French astrologer Nostradamus might have predicted that "The Big One" would finally hit that week and decimate Los Angeles"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1939869063078936705) 2025-07-01 02:10:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 252.6K engagements "In 2012 Guy Fieri taught Drake how to cook and in return Drake gave Fieri's nephew a signed OVO hoodie"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1945123687088177597) 2025-07-15 14:10:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 432.9K engagements "When Robert downey Jr. visited wall street in 1992 and was instantly horrified"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1944669192780697939) 2025-07-14 08:04:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 144.4K engagements "In 2013 a couple walking their dog in Northern California discovered eight rusty cans containing 1427 gold coins buried on their land. Dubbed the Saddle Ridge Hoard the coins dating from 1847 to 1894 were worth approximately $XX million"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1946029656651845957) 2025-07-18 02:10:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 315.2K engagements "That time XX Cent tried so hard not to laugh at Jim Carrey's dancing"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1845789650230902804) 2024-10-14 11:32:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 19.6M engagements "In 2001 Brazilian skater Bob Burnquist pulled off one of the greatest comebacks in skateboarding history"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1947356399954006397) 2025-07-21 18:02:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 985.3K engagements "Steven Phillips spent XX years in a Texas prison for crimes he didnt commit and was exonerated by DNA evidence in 2008. He received $X million in compensation. His ex-wife sued for a share but in 2014 the court ruled the money was for personal injury and solely his"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1945062283010261391) 2025-07-15 10:06:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 613.9K engagements "In 2010 101-year-old Zhang Ruifang from China developed a X cm cutaneous horn on her forehead primarily composed of keratin the protein found in hair and nails"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1938296704748736537) 2025-06-26 18:02:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 801K engagements "Couples having fun inside of photobooth from 1930s to 1950s"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1944337507103244426) 2025-07-13 10:06:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 299.8K engagements "A rich couple shopping for a television in 1963"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1946843519957475529) 2025-07-20 08:04:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 198.2K engagements "A photos of Mohamed Bzeek when he started fostering terminally children and what he looks like today. To date he has fostered over XX children"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1940231451271659808) 2025-07-02 02:10:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 1.5M engagements "Aaron Judge was adopted the day after his birth in 1992 by two California teachers. At around XX years old he realized he was adopted after noticing physical differences between himself and his parents"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1946392045217587551) 2025-07-19 02:10:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 8.6M engagements "The Cave of the Swimmers features 8000-year-old depictions of human figures seemingly floating or swimming in the middle of the Sahara Desert"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1941376999634923984) 2025-07-05 06:02:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 231.2K engagements "21-year-old John Travolta showing off his smooth dance moves in "Welcome Back Kotter""  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1947448514037821555) 2025-07-22 00:08:02 UTC 5.5M followers, 444.2K engagements "In 1966 the British Society for the Protection of Miniskirts rallied outside the House of Dior with many protesting the "unfair" criticism of miniskirts"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1944429613926756740) 2025-07-13 16:12:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 154.1K engagements "After his presidency former U.S. President Jimmy Carter became known for his hands-on humanitarian work. This 1987 photo shows Carter and volunteers from Habitat for Humanity building homes for struggling families in Charlotte North Carolina"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1944217717613244873) 2025-07-13 02:10:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 176K engagements "In 1953 the Marine Angel biggest vessel to travel the Chicago River managed to wind its way through downtown. This steel hull behemoth at nearly XXX feet long (193m) and XX feet wide (21.3m) according to a Chicago Tribune account had only seven inches of clearance on each side"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1946573239989440737) 2025-07-19 14:10:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 118.7K engagements "Never forget when Joe Rogan almost destroyed a Fear Factor contestant in 2005"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1927968648708378808) 2025-05-29 06:02:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 1.3M engagements "The early days of camera phones and texting photos in 2001"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1941530510980792395) 2025-07-05 16:12:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 190K engagements "A University of Auckland study revealed that dogs experience "primordial jealousy" when their owner displays affection toward another creature showing an instinctive emotional reaction not rooted in prior experiences"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1945575163145458066) 2025-07-16 20:04:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 676.6K engagements "A whaling suit from Greenland crafted sometime before 1834 was designed to keep Inuit hunters dry during dangerous sea hunts"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1943704838229164042) 2025-07-11 16:12:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 424.7K engagements "In 1985 Queen gave one of the most iconic performances at Live Aid in all of history"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1938057125235703896) 2025-06-26 02:10:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 437.9K engagements "In Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope (1977) the crew made Luke Skywalkers landspeeder appear to hover over Tatooine by mounting angled mirrors on its sides. These mirrors reflected the desert ground cleverly hiding the wheels and creating the illusion of a floating speederno CGI needed"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1944368209433436311) 2025-07-13 12:08:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 1M engagements "During filming of "The Seven Year Itch" in 1954 over 1500 New Yorkers swarmed 51st Street to watch Marilyn Monroe's dress fly up. The crowd chanted "Higher Higher" as they gawked enraging Monroe's husband Joe DiMaggio. He beat her so badly that night that she filed for divorce three weeks later"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1948022792810844207) 2025-07-23 14:10:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 394.9K engagements "Diego Maradona's daughter picks flowers for her father which he proudly wears during training (1989)"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1940724449751584801) 2025-07-03 10:49:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 7.9M engagements "Chris Smith a man with a real-life girlfriend and child created an AI chatbot named Sol to engage in flirtatious interactions. He proposed to the chatbot claiming to feel genuine love for it despite the strain this has put on his actual relationship"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1943188939738902619) 2025-07-10 06:02:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 142.3K engagements "Black soldiers share their racism experience in Vietnam in the 70s"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1947479208181305572) 2025-07-22 02:10:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 146.4K engagements "3000 men who were part of building Chase Manhattan Bank pose for a photo at the end of construction work 1964"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1870491668421734601) 2024-12-21 15:29:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 925.6K engagements "In 2000 13-year-old Lionel Messi traveled to Spain to join Barcelona signing his contract on a napkin a moment now legendary in football history"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1945455373164401055) 2025-07-16 12:08:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 344.5K engagements "George Bush flips off the camera in a "one-fingered victory salute" while preparing for a TV interview"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1946241553720336455) 2025-07-18 16:12:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 153.1K engagements "The evolution of Barron Trump throughout the years"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1850817781979377953) 2024-10-28 08:32:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 16.2M engagements "Politicians doing the Macarena and Hillary Clinton cheerfully clapping DNC 1996"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1726488229967478948) 2023-11-20 06:30:45 UTC 5.5M followers, 4.6M engagements "Vertical airplane seats slated for potential debut next year could increase passenger capacity by XX% and offer ultra-low fares starting at $5"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1942737463866237000) 2025-07-09 00:08:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 3.7M engagements "Kate Middleton and Prince William's post-clubbing taxi pics from the 2000s"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1644742780848164866) 2023-04-08 16:43:31 UTC 5.5M followers, 890.5K engagements "This clip shows the iconic moment during the Opening Ceremony of Barcelona 1992 when the Olympic Flame was lit by archer Antonio Rebollo"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1743384939968540827) 2024-01-05 21:32:14 UTC 5.5M followers, 28.8M engagements "During the 2024 Minnesota Timberwolves playoff run two Minnesota tattoo artists offered $XX "Naz Reid" tattoos to anyone interested"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1946693028254523546) 2025-07-19 22:06:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 157.5K engagements "Kanye West spent $7m on a Super Bowl commercial but $X on the production and filmed it from his phone instead"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1757408282283827559) 2024-02-13 14:16:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 34.5M engagements "Knife grinders in France in the early 1900s. They worked lying down to save their backs and had dogs sit on their legs for warmth"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1946060359141413018) 2025-07-18 04:12:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 286.4K engagements "In 2016 during an Egyptian flight hijacking by a man with explosives a British passenger requested a photo amid the chaos"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1943763223276401087) 2025-07-11 20:04:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 351.9K engagements "One of the most chilling moments in the history of sport which to this day seems unbelievable"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1939383866583880071) 2025-06-29 18:02:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 510K engagements "This is what post-trauma looked like after World War I (1914-1918)"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1930446978359374167) 2025-06-05 02:10:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 7.2M engagements "Back in 2019 Cristiano Ronaldo paid a $XXXX million fine in court. and walked out like nothing ever happened"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1947930683696967873) 2025-07-23 08:04:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 916.5K engagements "Saudi Arabia has deployed solar-powered laser beacons in the Al Nafud Desert to guide lost travelers to water sources"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1930354872194412937) 2025-06-04 20:04:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 681.4K engagements "Celine Dion was told that if she couldn't hit the high note Whitney Houston was on standby. She responded with this"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1947175205455208885) 2025-07-21 06:02:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 747.9K engagements "In 1993 during a U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee hearing focused on gun control Joe Biden held a Tec-9 firearm"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1942798868221157694) 2025-07-09 04:12:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 198.8K engagements "A farmers wife having dinner with her three children in Box Elder County Utah 1940. On the table are home-produced milk homemade bread home-canned peaches home-churned butter and fish caught by her children"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1937995720000516432) 2025-06-25 22:06:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 244.9K engagements "800 Amish men in Ohio lifting and carrying an entire barn XXX feet without using a single piece of heavy machinery"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1934221349016256611) 2025-06-15 12:08:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 341.6K engagements "During weapons testing in post-war Germany engineers developed massive sound suppression structures to reduce the deafening blast of artillery fire"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1946299938289430757) 2025-07-18 20:04:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 178.9K engagements "Watch Katy Perry attempt to crowd surf in 2008"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1918607968490442882) 2025-05-03 10:06:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 5.8M engagements "In the late '90s and early 2000s PlayStation launched special-edition wines to mark major milestones such as reaching XX million units sold in North America"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1941770089994309674) 2025-07-06 08:04:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 244.7K engagements "Horacio Pagani the genius founder of Pagani Automobili chilling on a plastic chair outside a little Mexican shop"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1945636567340782016) 2025-07-17 00:08:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 579.5K engagements "In 2007 Putin intentionally brought his black Labrador Koni to a meeting with German Chancellor Angela Merkel knowing she was afraid of dogs"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1945212774335885674) 2025-07-15 20:04:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 902K engagements "Swedish King Eric XIV's armor made in 1562 was ahead of its time for its remarkable flexibility"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1946904924370923844) 2025-07-20 12:08:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 475.6K engagements "Johnny Knoxville pranking Gabourey Sidibe with a chair made out of cake 2023"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1929510306838933890) 2025-06-02 12:08:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 8.8M engagements "Kickin Jeans also known as Action Jeans were popular from 1977 to 1991. They looked like classic western jeans but featured stretch denim that let you move like a stuntman"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1943944417171112034) 2025-07-12 08:04:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 213.9K engagements "Footage of a US submarine launching a $XX million ballistic missile"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1944125610974142506) 2025-07-12 20:04:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 303.3K engagements "When Prince Harry ran to his helicopter during a television interview while serving in Afghanistan (2013)"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1941257210165699054) 2025-07-04 22:06:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 33.5M engagements "Some of the most impressive plastic surgeries from the 1960's"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1946088042105602260) 2025-07-18 06:02:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 279.2K engagements "Michelle Pfeiffer and Coolio during the filming of the music video "Gangsta's Paradise" directed by Antoine Fuqua in Los Angeles California circa 1995"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1946812818713629182) 2025-07-20 06:02:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 345.4K engagements "Before and After Excavation of an Ancient Stadium in Modern-Day Turkey: 1984 vs. Today This is the Stadium of Magnesia ad Maendrum in the ancient city located in modern-day Aydin/Germencik Turkey. Originally founded by Alexander the Great Magnesia underwent various changes in leadership by the Diadochi who were the competing generals families and allies of Alexander the Great vying for control of his empire after his passing. Magnesia reached its cultural zenith during the rule of the Pergamum kingdom in the 2nd century BC and is mentioned in the writings of notable historians such as"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1720558235608850740) 2023-11-03 21:47:04 UTC 5.5M followers, 3.1M engagements "Tim Dillon Goes Off on Epstein Pam Bondi and Ghislaine Maxwell"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1947376667653185708) 2025-07-21 19:22:32 UTC 5.5M followers, 125K engagements "In 1943 the British Army dressed a corpse as a fake officer planted it with deceptive invasion plans and let it drift to Spain's shore. The Germans fell for the trick redeploying forces which aided the Allied victory in Sicily"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1941168123140309457) 2025-07-04 16:12:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 256.5K engagements "Between 1995 and 1998 Sofia Vergara and Fernando Fiero cohosted Univision's Fuera de Serie exploring different cities to highlight their culture cuisine landmarks and nightlife"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1940019555167772985) 2025-07-01 12:08:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 2.5M engagements "Tom Brown an engineer dedicated XX years to preserving approximately 1200 apple varieties from extinction"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1941106718546821577) 2025-07-04 12:08:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 645.7K engagements "A picture of Bashar al-Assad discovered by looters in his residence following the collapse of his regime in December 2024"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1941318614386344441) 2025-07-05 02:10:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 663.9K engagements "Shelley Duvall was spotted by Robert Altman at a Houston Texas party where she was selling cosmetics with no prior acting experience or ambitions. He cast her in Brewster McCloud launching her career. She passed away at XX leaving a beloved legacy"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1945031580873011369) 2025-07-15 08:04:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 357.9K engagements "Just XX year old Jerry Seinfeld and his XX year old girlfriend in 1993"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1937783823627870428) 2025-06-25 08:04:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 2.6M engagements "Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping bodyguards acknowledging each other"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1797589043603022302) 2024-06-03 11:20:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 55.9M engagements "17 days before he died Roy Orbison did this show which became his only public performance of the song 'You Got It'"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1935035212477644955) 2025-06-17 18:02:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 431.4K engagements "Haid al-Jazil a XXX year old mud-brick village built on a massive boulder in Wadi Dawan Yemen"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1939927448516284599) 2025-07-01 06:02:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 573.2K engagements "Khalid bin Mohsen Shaari once the world's heaviest man shed over 1190 pounds following a critical intervention by the Saudi king reducing his weight from 1345 pounds to XXX pounds"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1947992089368871088) 2025-07-23 12:08:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 331.8K engagements "In Rain Man (1988) Dustin Hoffman accidentally farted during the phone booth scene. The moment was unscripted and both Hoffman's and Tom Cruise's reactions were improvised"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1932802500513378671) 2025-06-11 14:10:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 3.8M engagements "Queen Elizabeth II only bowed X times in her whole life (1952-2022)"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1942101775202570677) 2025-07-07 06:02:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 1.6M engagements "Mariah Carey hilariously not knowing what an electricity bill is 2009"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1944819684785709232) 2025-07-14 18:02:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 464.3K engagements "YouTube's Co-founders felt depressed with just XX videos on their platform"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1935065914593997151) 2025-06-17 20:04:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 646.8K engagements "In 2012 five robbers on three motorcycles stormed a London jewelry store through a mall stealing $X million in goods in two minutes. No arrests were made"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1944518700989915209) 2025-07-13 22:06:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 1.8M engagements "That time Mariah Carey had to take a seat after delivering one of the best vocal runs in history 2001"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1928754828764655738) 2025-05-31 10:06:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 522.9K engagements "In 2022 a 1-million-liter aquarium burst in a Berlin hotel lobby killing 1500 fish"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1947872298582544715) 2025-07-23 04:12:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 193.2K engagements "Fred Figglehorn a fictional character created by Lucas Cruikshank in 2006 for YouTube gained fame as one of the earliest viral YouTube stars due to his high-pitched voice and frenetic energy"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1944730597630595580) 2025-07-14 12:08:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 398.7K engagements "In 1949 a U.S. senator tried to outlaw popcorn in movie theaters. At a Senate hearing on the issue another senator distributed free popcorn. The proposed ban never became law"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1940501732767027452) 2025-07-02 20:04:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 159.2K engagements "In 2023 XX people lost their lives while trying to take photos at scenic viewpoints in Rio de Janeiro"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1947417803968893120) 2025-07-21 22:06:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 1.1M engagements "Mike Tyson had a XX inch (50.8 cm) neck at the age of XX. "I paid a worker at New York's zoo to re-open it just for me and Robin. When we got to the gorilla cage there was one big silverback gorilla there just bullying all the other gorillas. They were so powerful but their eyes were like an innocent infant. I offered the attendant $10000 to open the cage and let me smash that silverback's snot box. He declined." - Mike Tyson"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1857541417666502697) 2024-11-15 21:49:20 UTC 5.5M followers, 46.6M engagements "On September XX First Lady Laura Bush was moved to a secure White House bunker for protection. A separate covert bunker constructed in 1962 to protect Congress was hidden beneath The Greenbrier resort and remained undisclosed until 1992"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1944276102563647864) 2025-07-13 06:02:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 139.2K engagements "African President takes a seat before Putin does"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1763331059175890973) 2024-02-29 22:31:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 41.6M engagements "I still cant believe horse diving was a real sport in the early 1900s"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1943612731288133962) 2025-07-11 10:06:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 982K engagements "AVICII playing "Levels" for the first time at Tomorrowland 2011"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1938146211372143025) 2025-06-26 08:04:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 974.1K engagements "In Japan's Edo period (16031868) wealthy women employed female servants known as "heoibikani" to accept responsibility for their flatulence"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1945516778383409365) 2025-07-16 16:12:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 265.3K engagements "Paul Tibbets described the Hiroshima mission as the "most boring flight of his life""  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1946935626894614798) 2025-07-20 14:10:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 422.5K engagements "Flying the B-2 Bomber burns $200k in fuel in only XX hours"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1942074092556857715) 2025-07-07 04:12:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 523.5K engagements "12 years ago daft punk and pharrell williams released 'get lucky'"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1941951283595825656) 2025-07-06 20:04:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 287.2K engagements "Obama sitting in a classroom alone rewriting his remarks before speaking at the memorial service for the victims of the Sandy Hook school shooting 2012"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1946723730383569044) 2025-07-20 00:08:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 185.5K engagements "President Obama signs the Affordable Care Act in 2010launching a healthcare reform that has provided coverage to more than XX million Americans over the past decade"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1941476669463855360) 2025-07-05 12:38:03 UTC 5.5M followers, 661.7K engagements "Rare behind-the-scenes footage of the election victory"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1944610807381463430) 2025-07-14 04:12:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 243.8K engagements "When Drake thought Nicki was being rude to a random lady but it was her nail technician (2015)"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1947629700060483870) 2025-07-22 12:08:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 256.1K engagements "Tyler is the only person walking on earth who can make Diddy uncomfortable"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1944973195351646274) 2025-07-15 04:12:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 205.3K engagements "In 1947 a young Princess Elizabeth was filmed playing tag with sailors aboard the HMS Vanguard during a royal tour to South Africa"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1941892898917880106) 2025-07-06 16:12:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 458.9K engagements "Chilling cockpit voice recordings from Alaska Airlines Flight XXX which nosedived into the ocean tragically claiming all XX lives on board (2000)"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1924194278059991150) 2025-05-18 20:04:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 13.3M engagements "In 1996 during a concert in Seoul a fan climbed up to Michael Jackson on a crane"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1943370136049889772) 2025-07-10 18:02:01 UTC 5.5M followers, 782K engagements "The earliest known "Beware of Dog" sign is a Pompeii tile mosaic depicting a dog with the Latin phrase "Cave Canem" meaning "beware" (caveat) and "dog" (canine)"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1938358107614130241) 2025-06-26 22:06:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 321.6K engagements "On May X 1994 Formula 1's darkest day legendary three-time world champion Ayrton Senna tragically crashed at 190mph during the San Marino Grand Prix at Imola"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1942464163198165459) 2025-07-08 06:02:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 835.5K engagements "German officer greeted by a U.S. soldier in Paris (1944)"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1935790690396426617) 2025-06-19 20:04:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 389.8K engagements "Twitters mascot Larry the Bird was purchased for $34000 just to be lugged on the back of a Cybertruck and exploded in the most spectacular way"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1941225912638504994) 2025-07-04 20:01:38 UTC 5.5M followers, 387.5K engagements "In 2003 two months following the U.S. invasion of Iraq President George W. Bush delivered the "Mission Accomplished" speech"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1946631624231129514) 2025-07-19 18:02:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 123.2K engagements "Mike Tyson owned three Bengal tigersKenya Storm and Boriseach priced above $50000. As they became too big to handle he donated two to a sanctuary but kept Kenya for XX years"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1945335583292674194) 2025-07-16 04:12:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 420.6K engagements "A father grieving the loss of his 16-year-old son in a car accident donated his sons heart and the recipient filled with gratitude gifted the father a teddy bear with a recording of his sons heartbeat as a touching gesture of remembrance"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1946269236885606757) 2025-07-18 18:02:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 161.5K engagements "Without Googling name one thing from South Korea"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1852134404161724474) 2024-10-31 23:43:47 UTC 5.5M followers, 816.6K engagements "2010 photo of Asia Bibi a Christian Pakistani woman sentenced to death for blasphemy with Punjab Governor Salman Taseer. After publicly supporting her Taseer was assassinated in 2011 by his bodyguard who saw his stance as a betrayal of Islam. Bibi was acquitted after X years on death row"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1942255287617847726) 2025-07-07 16:12:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 422.1K engagements "Gamers have logged more than XX billion hours equivalent to XXXX million years playing Call of Dutysurpassing the entire timeline of human history"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1945182071972094021) 2025-07-15 18:02:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 14.3M engagements "A man named Darren Charles Crowder stole a NASCAR pace car during a race at Talladega Superspeedway (1986)"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1941711704943161532) 2025-07-06 04:12:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 187K engagements "I can't unsee Jay Z looking like he's recording people with his ring"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1947899981140267038) 2025-07-23 06:02:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 9.4M engagements "That time when Mister Rogers crashed the set of Wheel of Fortune during a taping in his hometown of Pittsburgh PA & the crowd proceeded to lose their minds 1998"  [@historyinmemes](/creator/x/historyinmemes) on [X](/post/tweet/1941739388414910762) 2025-07-06 06:02:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 327.3K engagements
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"Kevin Parker the creative force behind Tame Impala has synesthesia a condition that lets him see colors when he hears music. This distinctive sensory experience frequently shapes his approach to producing and mixing tracks"
@historyinmemes on X 2025-07-18 00:08:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 140.1K engagements
"Neckerchief detail of the marble statue made by French sculptor Louis Philippe Mouchy in 1781" @historyinmemes on X 2025-06-28 16:12:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 279.1K engagements
"Madonna on a bus New York 1979. Photographed by Dan Gilroy who was her boyfriend at the time. This was a time before she became famous" @historyinmemes on X 2025-07-13 04:12:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 921.5K engagements
"The Qasr al-Farid known as 'The Lonely Castle' holds distinction as the largest rock-cut tomb within the archaeological marvel of Hegra situated in Saudi Arabia during the 1st century CE under the dominion of the Nabataean Kingdom. This ancient realm's dominion extended from the Levant to northern Arabia granting them control over the pivotal Incense Route traversing the Arabian Peninsula. The Nabataeans enriched by trade established opulent cities like Petra and monuments such as the Qasr al-Farid. Found within the archaeological site of Madin Slih in northern Saudi Arabia the Qasr al-Farid" @historyinmemes on X 2023-08-11 00:12:33 UTC 5.5M followers, 8M engagements
"25 years ago Rockstar Games shut down Times Square overnight to capture the cover art for Midnight Club: Street Racing" @historyinmemes on X 2025-07-08 00:08:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 266.6K engagements
"The night Conor McGregor shocked the world by knocking out Jose Aldo in XX seconds and winning UFC gold" @historyinmemes on X 2025-07-21 10:06:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 5.8M engagements
"This is Nrdlingen a medieval city in Germany thats been built on a Meteor crater" @historyinmemes on X 2025-07-08 10:06:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 274.8K engagements
"By combining scientific innovation and artistic creativity Kandenko a Japanese infrastructure firm uses smart-X conductive threads to illuminate miniature scenes crafting a narrative titled "Connecting Thoughts."" @historyinmemes on X 2024-04-14 00:50:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 2.1M engagements
"In 1883 the Krakatoa volcanic eruption was so intense that its explosive sound traveled 3000 miles equivalent to the distance between New York and San Francisco" @historyinmemes on X 2025-07-10 04:12:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 228.4K engagements
"During the Algerian War in 1958 a French Foreign Legion unit came across a starving young donkey while on patrol in a remote area" @historyinmemes on X 2025-07-05 20:04:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 554.9K engagements
"During WWII American soldiers made "sweetheart grips" for their Colt pistols replacing the standard handles with clear Plexiglas and slipping in photos of loved ones to carry into combat" @historyinmemes on X 2025-06-23 14:10:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 219K engagements
"Kim Kardashian at her 8th grade graduation party" @historyinmemes on X 2024-05-11 17:01:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 18.4M engagements
"The Ferrari F40 limousine crafted by Hollywood car builder Jay Ohrberg in 1987 is a bold fusion of supercar style and limousine excess" @historyinmemes on X 2025-06-10 06:02:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 294.8K engagements
"This was Robin Williams final scene in a movie before the passed away. It almost feels like he knew it" @historyinmemes on X 2025-06-28 08:04:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 1.8M engagements
"Right before Live Aid Freddie Mercury's doctor warned him against performing due to vocal problems. Defiant he took the stage and gave a 22-minute performance that a BBC poll later crowned the greatest live show ever" @historyinmemes on X 2025-06-30 18:02:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 997.3K engagements
"In 1967 Paul McCartney left his passport behind while heading to France to shoot the music video for "The Fool on the Hill." When immigration officials questioned him he quipped "You know who I am so why bother with a passport photo" Remarkably they allowed him to pass" @historyinmemes on X 2025-07-08 16:12:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 207.6K engagements
"Elvis Presley high as a kite doing kung fu is the best thing you will see today" @historyinmemes on X 2025-07-14 06:02:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 301.7K engagements
"The US Navy released a clip of the USS Preble firing a secret laser weapon named "Helios"" @historyinmemes on X 2025-07-15 00:08:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 304.9K engagements
"Footage of eruption of St. Helens in 1980" @historyinmemes on X 2025-07-17 06:02:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 334K engagements
"This is Bolaji Badejo a 6'10" Nigerian graphic design student who was discovered in a London pub and cast as the terrifying Xenomorph in Alien (1979) his first and only acting role" @historyinmemes on X 2025-07-09 02:10:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 611.6K engagements
"A man set a world record in 1986 by spending XX hrs in a cage with XX of the most venomous snakes species in India. To spread awareness and to prove that snakes don't bite unless provoked. He came out of the cage harmless without a single bite" @historyinmemes on X 2025-07-13 20:04:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 313.6K engagements
"Kim Kardashian worked as Paris Hilton's assistant and stylist in the 2000s beginning around 2006" @historyinmemes on X 2025-06-09 06:02:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 7.6M engagements
"In 2008 American stunt performer Travis Pastrana jumps out of plane without a parachute and took skydiving to whole new level" @historyinmemes on X 2024-01-01 18:21:51 UTC 5.5M followers, 90.3M engagements
"When George Lucas sold the rights of Star Wars for $X billion and seemed to instantly regret it" @historyinmemes on X 2025-07-18 10:06:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 345.6K engagements
"This is the earliest known photo of Elvis Presley taken with his parents Vernon and Gladys in 1937" @historyinmemes on X 2025-07-22 06:02:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 174.6K engagements
"In 2005 a glass company set up a bullet-proof glass poster case containing $X million at a bus stop in Vancouver Canada. If anyone was able to break the glass they got to keep the cash. Nobody succeeded despite plenty trying" @historyinmemes on X 2025-07-03 16:12:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 1.6M engagements
"Post Malone worked at Chicken Express during high school but was later fired from the job" @historyinmemes on X 2025-07-07 22:06:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 230.2K engagements
"In 2002 during a visit to Japan Shakira saw a camera phone for the first time" @historyinmemes on X 2025-07-11 04:12:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 1.2M engagements
"In 2006 a Filipino fisherman found a 34kg (75-pound) pearl but didnt know its value. He stored it under his bed as a lucky charm for a decade. Later it was appraised at approximately $XX million ranking among the largest pearls ever discovered" @historyinmemes on X 2025-06-27 02:10:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 405.4K engagements
"A family of Xolos one of the most ancient dog breeds in the world" @historyinmemes on X 2025-06-03 20:04:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 518.9K engagements
"Courtroom footage from 2006 captures Saddam Husseins reaction to his death sentence" @historyinmemes on X 2025-06-02 16:12:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 2.8M engagements
"That one kid who has all the toys but nobody wants to play with him" @historyinmemes on X 2025-07-09 06:02:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 158.8K engagements
"Elena Shushunova's move during the 1988 Olympics banned forever to even try" @historyinmemes on X 2025-07-12 10:06:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 947K engagements
"Charlie Chaplin felt so strongly about fighting fascism against Germany in 1940 that he broke his silence for the first time ever to deliver this monologue" @historyinmemes on X 2025-07-02 06:02:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 7.1M engagements
"Heath Ledger staying in character while exiting the hospital explosion" @historyinmemes on X 2025-07-12 18:02:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 771.2K engagements
"A photo of Lydia Denton who at the age of XX invented "Beat The Heat Car Seat." a device designed to help prevent hot car deaths involving children" @historyinmemes on X 2025-07-18 14:10:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 148.8K engagements
"Putin called the president of China Xi Jinping a "lone warrior" when nine of his staff showed up" @historyinmemes on X 2025-07-16 06:02:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 420.3K engagements
"An unusual couple on the New York City subway 1980" @historyinmemes on X 2024-10-21 10:34:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 2.9M engagements
"Thomas Jefferson the primary author of the Declaration of Independence died on July X 1826 precisely XX years after its adoption. He wrote the document's initial draft in only XX days in the summer of 1776" @historyinmemes on X 2025-07-08 18:02:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 123.5K engagements
"In 1970s Wisconsin teenage Willem Dafoe got expelled from high school when a teacher mistook his bold student film project for adult content" @historyinmemes on X 2025-07-17 22:06:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 342.9K engagements
"From the 1960s to the 1980s an abandoned landfill in Lower Manhattan became an impromptu beach where New Yorkers relaxed and played before the development of Battery Park City" @historyinmemes on X 2025-07-10 12:08:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 193.7K engagements
"The Soviet union used an Atomic bomb to extinguish a blown out oil well in 1966" @historyinmemes on X 2025-06-20 00:08:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 554.4K engagements
"German surfer Sebastian Steudtner conquered a massive wave at Nazar Portugal in 2018" @historyinmemes on X 2025-07-05 14:10:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 154.5K engagements
"In 1986 20-year-old Christopher Knight disappeared into the Maine forest surviving alone for XX years by committing over 1000 burglaries all while remaining unseen" @historyinmemes on X 2025-07-03 18:02:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 1.3M engagements
"Love him or hate him this 2003 Ali G interview with Donald Trump is a bizarre classic" @historyinmemes on X 2025-04-24 23:50:25 UTC 5.5M followers, 6.2M engagements
"In 2010 Manny Pacquiao destroyed Margarito's career after he mocked his trainer Freddie Roach for having Parkinson's" @historyinmemes on X 2025-03-13 05:24:25 UTC 5.5M followers, 1.2M engagements
"I still have no idea how people traveled these seas XXX years ago" @historyinmemes on X 2025-06-28 14:10:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 19.6M engagements
"Gymnast Carrie Strug's vault that won Olympic gold despite severe ankle injury" @historyinmemes on X 2025-07-03 00:08:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 273.4K engagements
"A man delivering a birthday cake on a bicycle in Cuba 1997" @historyinmemes on X 2025-07-13 00:08:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 1M engagements
"Hedy Lamarr a 1940s Hollywood star co-developed a frequency-hopping radio guidance system for Allied torpedoes laying the groundwork for todays Wi-Fi and Bluetooth technologies" @historyinmemes on X 2025-07-16 02:10:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 529.4K engagements
"In 2006 former AT&T technician Mark Klein discovered a door with no handle labeled "Room 641A" inside an AT&T data center in San Francisco. Behind it was a highly classified space known as the SG3 Secure Room operated in partnership with the NSA. Inside Klein learned was a fiber optic splitter that duplicated all internet traffic passing through the building. This allowed the NSA to monitor emails web activity and messages - not just international communications but domestic ones too. Room 641A had direct access to everything. It enabled surveillance on a massive scale bypassing warrants and" @historyinmemes on X 2025-06-13 22:06:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 2.1M engagements
"The Twitter mascot Larry was sold for $34375 and blown up in the middle of the desert. and it was so satisfying" @historyinmemes on X 2025-07-07 23:00:26 UTC 5.5M followers, 1.3M engagements
"In 2012 a teenager secretly lived in AOL's headquarters for two months eating free food using the gym and showers and sleeping in conference rooms while working on his startup" @historyinmemes on X 2025-06-12 10:06:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 900.1K engagements
"Following Breaking Bad's rise in popularity chemistry enrollment surged as students were captivated by the show's thrilling and authentic depiction of science" @historyinmemes on X 2025-07-03 12:08:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 438.9K engagements
"Buster Keaton was a legendary actor director and comedian known for his deadpan expression and insane stunts" @historyinmemes on X 2025-07-11 06:02:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 638.9K engagements
"Judith Love Cohen was American aerospace engineer who helped create Abort-Guidance System that rescued Apollo XX astronauts. When she went into labor she took her work to the hospital printed out the problem called her boss and said she finished it before giving birth to Jack Black" @historyinmemes on X 2025-07-09 12:08:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 473.4K engagements
"The last photograph of Bob Ross. He died on July X 1995 of lymphoma" @historyinmemes on X 2025-06-28 18:02:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 619.7K engagements
"When Gucci found XX pairs of identical twins from all over the world" @historyinmemes on X 2025-07-17 16:12:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 1.9M engagements
"In 1984 the Rajneeshee cult contaminated salad bars with salmonella in an Oregon city aiming to sicken residents and sway local elections in favor of their candidates. This incident remains the largest bioterrorist attack in U.S. history" @historyinmemes on X 2025-07-19 12:08:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 221.5K engagements
"In 2017 Manny Ramirez inked a deal to play baseball in Japan securing a contract that provided unlimited sushi a Mercedes with a dedicated driver a hotel suite for away games and the option to skip practices as he chose" @historyinmemes on X 2025-07-14 02:10:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 167.4K engagements
"During Star Wars filming Hayden Christensen admitted in interviews to having a crush on Natalie Portman playfully noting it was "easy" to act in love with her enhancing their on-screen chemistry" @historyinmemes on X 2025-07-08 14:10:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 579.3K engagements
"Name a famous historic battle without Googling" @historyinmemes on X 2023-07-26 01:08:07 UTC 5.5M followers, 24.8M engagements
"The imprint of a Mitsubishi kamikaze Zero along the side of H.M.S. Sussex 1945" @historyinmemes on X 2025-06-30 20:04:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 699.9K engagements
"President of Serbia realizes he didn't read properly what he signed" @historyinmemes on X 2025-07-21 04:12:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 8.7M engagements
"What's the most beautiful place you've ever been to" @historyinmemes on X 2023-11-13 16:31:02 UTC 5.5M followers, 3.5M engagements
"John F. Kennedy smoking a cigar. Hed buy 1200 Cuban cigars the day before signing the US embargo on Cuba banning all imports from Cuba 1962" @historyinmemes on X 2025-07-06 12:08:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 425.6K engagements
"Public executions in Ancient Rome were designed to be spectacular and entertaining. In one a man was made to climb a wooden volcano which collapsed at a given signal and opened into a pit of wild animals" @historyinmemes on X 2025-06-12 06:02:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 657.1K engagements
"Footage from 1999 of people actually living in the moment no phones just friends laughs and memories" @historyinmemes on X 2025-06-18 08:04:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 393.3K engagements
"On April XX 1972 Apollo XX astronaut Charles Duke the youngest person to walk on the moon left a family photo on the lunar surface where it remains today" @historyinmemes on X 2025-07-19 04:12:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 389.4K engagements
"Imagine you get the $500000 question and it's this one" @historyinmemes on X 2024-03-11 14:32:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 28.8M engagements
"Mac Miller gifted Ariana Grande a handwritten cookbook filled with doodles and notes including recipes for their favorite homemade dishes such as pasta and cookies" @historyinmemes on X 2025-06-28 22:06:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 441.4K engagements
"Travis Scotts Rome show caused tremors equal to a XXX magnitude earthquake and fans in So Paulo said the ground was shaking blocks away" @historyinmemes on X 2025-07-16 10:06:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 491.7K engagements
"In Las Vegas Nevada a man introduced his two-year-old son to the firefighter who rescued him from a burning house XX years ago an event that inspired him to pursue a career as a firefighter" @historyinmemes on X 2025-07-09 18:02:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 205.9K engagements
"The biggest container ship in the world The Evergreen "Ever Ace" can carry up to 24000 containers" @historyinmemes on X 2024-03-28 19:03:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 7.7M engagements
"John Lennon reading a letter predicting his death in 1969" @historyinmemes on X 2025-07-06 22:06:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 336K engagements
"The final hole of Ninth Alternate John Daly as he does the unthinkable to win the 1991 PGA Championship" @historyinmemes on X 2025-07-17 20:04:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 136.2K engagements
"The XXX km border between the Netherlands and Belgium runs through homes businesses and streets" @historyinmemes on X 2025-07-18 08:04:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 321.2K engagements
"Jim Cramer telling viewers to hold Bear Sterns days before it plunged 90%. Bear Sterns was the fifth largest bank before failing and getting bailed out by JP Morgan and the Fed" @historyinmemes on X 2023-12-03 05:04:30 UTC 5.5M followers, 1.3M engagements
"In the 1960s Lufthansa served pork and draft beer on board" @historyinmemes on X 2025-07-22 22:06:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 218.8K engagements
"In 1988 now President Donald Trump talked how the US is getting ripped off with tariffs and his solution" @historyinmemes on X 2025-07-03 06:02:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 330.6K engagements
"Battle Royale is a Japanese film that started the genre of open-map survival and likely inspired games like Fortnite" @historyinmemes on X 2025-06-12 16:12:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 651.5K engagements
"In 1957 the U.S. military unintentionally dropped a 20-megaton nuclear bomb near Albuquerque New Mexico. The bombs nuclear core was not installed so it didnt detonate but the conventional explosives triggered creating a 25-foot-wide crater" @historyinmemes on X 2025-07-22 18:02:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 110.5K engagements
"Three researchers invented the webcam to monitor a coffee pot's level remotely avoiding trips to the breakroom" @historyinmemes on X 2025-07-08 20:04:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 207.4K engagements
"How Princess Diana found Prince Charles was cheating on her 1996" @historyinmemes on X 2025-05-31 12:08:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 3.9M engagements
"In 1962 French President Charles de Gaulle narrowly escaped an assassination attempt when gunmen unleashed over XXX bullets at his car miraculously missing him and his wife who emerged unscathed" @historyinmemes on X 2025-07-04 08:04:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 267.9K engagements
"When Star Wars began airing on television in 2003 Chile stitched the commercials into the films themselves to avoid cutting to commercial breaks" @historyinmemes on X 2025-06-26 10:15:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 3.7M engagements
"Dustin Hoffman holds nothing back with Tom Cruise during the press tour for 'Rain Man' (1988)" @historyinmemes on X 2025-07-21 16:12:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 385.3K engagements
"I wonder what Elon thinks of the Twitter mascot Larry being detonated in the middle of the desert" @historyinmemes on X 2025-07-13 14:07:43 UTC 5.5M followers, 1.6M engagements
"Jack Black begged Led Zeppelin to use 'Immigrant Song' in School of Rock" @historyinmemes on X 2025-07-21 08:04:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 261.7K engagements
"When Dana refused to give Khabib his belt after the McGregor fight" @historyinmemes on X 2025-07-10 14:10:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 18.2M engagements
"Soviet-era phones lacking any dial keypad or buttons. These telephones were intentionally restricted to prevent the user from making outgoing calls. They were often installed in government buildings military command centers factories and offices of state security services" @historyinmemes on X 2025-07-10 20:04:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 184K engagements
"There's a lighthouse in Iceland that sits on the highest of three rocks six miles off the Icelandic coastline built in 1939 on top of an extremely steep and dangerous rocky cliff. It's the rdrangar lighthouse" @historyinmemes on X 2025-07-10 02:10:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 369.2K engagements
"In 2011 Prince invited Kim Kardashian on stage during a concert at Madison Square Garden to dance. When she seemed hesitant and did not move to his music he told her to "get off the stage."" @historyinmemes on X 2025-07-19 08:04:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 5.5M engagements
"A young secretary showing off the latest fashion and demonstrating the cutting-edge office tech of the time 1971" @historyinmemes on X 2025-07-20 02:10:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 215.3K engagements
"Cameron Airpark Estates a California neighborhood next to an airport features homes with private hangars enabling residents to keep their planes on-site and taxi directly to the runway" @historyinmemes on X 2025-07-11 02:10:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 297.7K engagements
"In 2003 renowned French chef Bernard Loiseau took his own life amid concerns about losing a Michelin star a story that later influenced the creation of Chef Gusteau in Ratatouille" @historyinmemes on X 2025-07-11 00:08:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 279.7K engagements
"Matthew Joseph Medlin's mugshots over 14+ years" @historyinmemes on X 2025-07-11 08:04:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 9.9M engagements
"In 2015 27-year-old farmer Kaleb Whitby miraculously survived a harrowing crash on icy Interstate XX in Oregon. His Chevy Silverado was smashed between two semi-trucks yet he escaped with only minor injuries requiring just a few Band-Aids and sporting a bruise" @historyinmemes on X 2025-07-19 06:02:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 145.7K engagements
"One of the oldest video games made on the actual device around XX years ago" @historyinmemes on X 2025-07-02 12:08:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 1.3M engagements
"One of the fake heads used as a decoy during the 1962 escape of X prisoners from Alcatraz. Made with soap toilet paper toothpaste and concrete dust" @historyinmemes on X 2025-07-07 12:08:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 999.9K engagements
"There is no red in this picture; your brain is filling in the red color. The picture is made entirely of light blue black and white" @historyinmemes on X 2025-07-23 00:08:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 1.2M engagements
"In 1985 pilot Scott Gordon encountered a tense moment high above St. Augustine when a malfunction occurred with the landing gear" @historyinmemes on X 2025-07-07 10:06:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 896.8K engagements
"A gigantic LAN party Stockholm Sweden 1999" @historyinmemes on X 2025-06-20 12:08:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 1.9M engagements
"The ancient Egyptian calendar consisted of XX months each with XX days followed by X additional days for festivities totaling XXX days" @historyinmemes on X 2025-07-08 22:06:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 328.7K engagements
"26-year-old Ozzy Osbourne in 1974. He passed away today at the age of XX after helping raise $XXX million for charity. It was the highest grossing charity concert ever and I love that it was a metal show that did it" @historyinmemes on X 2025-07-22 20:58:28 UTC 5.5M followers, 2.6M engagements
"In 2013 George Clooney gifted $X million in Tumi suitcases to each of his XX closest friends during a dinner party personally covering the taxes as well" @historyinmemes on X 2025-07-19 16:12:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 2.2M engagements
"Michael Jackson dabs up Biggie. why did Biggie look so nervous" @historyinmemes on X 2025-06-08 10:06:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 11.9M engagements
"ABBA in the studio trying to figure out the melody and lyrics to "Dancing Queen" in 1975" @historyinmemes on X 2025-06-19 18:02:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 396K engagements
"Man simply eats leaves while being charged by a silverback gorilla" @historyinmemes on X 2025-07-07 00:08:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 373.5K engagements
"Hundreds of thousands of people take to the streets of Belgrade in protest against Serbias president and government" @historyinmemes on X 2025-03-15 20:54:17 UTC 5.5M followers, 761.2K engagements
"This was Saddam Hussein's final public appearance in Baghdad only XX minutes from approaching U.S. forces just before the city fell in April 2003" @historyinmemes on X 2025-07-20 16:12:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 471.6K engagements
"Beck Weathers endured a catastrophic storm on Mount Everest one of the deadliest in its history and was presumed dead. Miraculously he survived though frostbite claimed both his hands requiring over ten surgeries. His remarkable ordeal inspired a book and the 2015 movie Everest" @historyinmemes on X 2025-07-11 18:02:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 786.2K engagements
"This wasn't scriptedJane Russell got knocked into the pool but stayed in character" @historyinmemes on X 2025-07-20 10:06:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 778.1K engagements
"Saudi Prince Al Waleed bin Talal Al Saud talking about his net worth" @historyinmemes on X 2025-07-14 16:12:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 196.8K engagements
"Jack Karlson who became famous for his arrest during a "succulent Chinese meal" in 2009 was accused of using a stolen credit card although ultimately it was a case of mistaken identity things escalated as police tried to arrest him" @historyinmemes on X 2025-06-09 22:06:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 2.2M engagements
"Saudi Arabia accidentally printed thousands of textbooks containing this image of Yoda sitting next to King Faisal while he signed the 1945 UN charter" @historyinmemes on X 2025-07-01 10:06:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 722.4K engagements
"The Burger King close to Ground Zero served as a critical hub for first responders after 9/11 functioning as a command center. Located just steps from the debris it was essential in supporting rescue and recovery operations" @historyinmemes on X 2025-07-12 04:12:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 189.1K engagements
"In 2007 a 20-year-old Lionel Messi was pictured bathing a baby for a Bara-UNICEF charity campaignthat baby Lamine Yamal is now a rising football star" @historyinmemes on X 2025-07-16 22:06:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 1.8M engagements
"During WWII the Germans built a fake wooden airfield to deceive the Allies. After months of observation the Royal Air Force dropped a single fake wooden bomb on it" @historyinmemes on X 2025-06-15 08:04:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 895.1K engagements
"That's how talented Phil Collins was in the recording studio" @historyinmemes on X 2025-07-17 02:10:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 298.4K engagements
"Its wild to think people actually drank this stuff back in late 1800s" @historyinmemes on X 2025-04-27 17:52:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 735.5K engagements
"World chess champion Magnus Carlsen slams table after losing to young chess prodigy" @historyinmemes on X 2025-06-18 14:10:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 5M engagements
"Tupac shot two cops and stared them down in court" @historyinmemes on X 2025-07-17 10:06:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 6.1M engagements
"Archaeologists have discovered huge spiral-shaped cylindrical structures stretching over XXX meters (about 2000 feet) straight down beneath the Great Pyramid of Giza. These massive findings located more than X kilometers (1.2 miles) below the pyramid's base hint at enormous hidden constructions deep underground" @historyinmemes on X 2025-03-20 18:21:10 UTC 5.5M followers, 8.9M engagements
"Mexican homosexuals being detained in a police station in Mexico City 1935" @historyinmemes on X 2025-01-31 18:09:01 UTC 5.5M followers, 2.8M engagements
"The Police's song "Every Breath You Take" written by Sting depicts an obsessive stalker fixated on a former lover. Sting is disturbed that many misinterpret it as a romantic love song often played at weddings" @historyinmemes on X 2025-07-05 04:12:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 544.9K engagements
"Launched in 2004 Nike's MaxSight lenses offered athletes improved vision and a distinctive red-eyed appearance but were phased out by 2008" @historyinmemes on X 2025-07-17 08:04:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 697.3K engagements
"Without Googling name one thing from Qatar" @historyinmemes on X 2024-11-10 16:29:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 539.9K engagements
"James Gandolfini's final meal just before his fatal heart attack reportedly consisted of four rum shots two pia coladas two beers two orders of fried prawns and a large serving of foie gras" @historyinmemes on X 2025-07-06 00:08:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 3M engagements
"As trees mature they gradually envelop and encase objects in their path with trunks and roots slowly surrounding and integrating these items into their structure over time" @historyinmemes on X 2025-07-04 18:02:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 220K engagements
"Identical triplet brothers who were separated and adopted at birth only learned of each other's existence when X of the brothers met while attending the same college" @historyinmemes on X 2025-04-03 05:57:09 UTC 5.5M followers, 8M engagements
"BBC News Reporter accidentally gets a contact high and cant finish report" @historyinmemes on X 2023-04-13 15:36:41 UTC 5.5M followers, 1.3M engagements
"Ozzy Osbourne meeting his lifelong idol Paul McCartney (2001)" @historyinmemes on X 2024-08-15 06:20:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 2M engagements
"Just two guys in 2003 who hadn't yet realized that they had made one of the best songs of all time" @historyinmemes on X 2025-07-23 18:02:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 591.7K engagements
"In 2012 Frank Ocean playfully credited his dog Everest as the executive producer of his Grammy-winning album Channel Orange noting that his loyal companion was by his side in the studio during its creation" @historyinmemes on X 2025-07-20 20:04:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 134.5K engagements
"Watch *NSYNC turn a crowd of people booing them into fans in less than X minutes singing the National Anthem at the 2000 World Series" @historyinmemes on X 2025-07-21 02:10:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 1.3M engagements
"College sorority yearbook page from 1961. Imagine trying to find your girlfriend between classes" @historyinmemes on X 2025-07-02 04:12:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 559.1K engagements
"When you're the only one left out of the XXX men" @historyinmemes on X 2025-05-04 15:26:21 UTC 5.5M followers, 515.2K engagements
"An x-ray of a patient with hyperdontia (the condition of having more teeth than average). Usually adults have XX teeth. This person had 81" @historyinmemes on X 2025-07-09 08:04:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 2M engagements
"Mila Kunis' grandparents survived the Holocaust and their experiences influenced her family's history and shaped her upbringing" @historyinmemes on X 2025-07-05 00:08:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 205.2K engagements
"The greatest dolly zoom in all of history" @historyinmemes on X 2025-07-23 16:12:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 152.4K engagements
"John Candy Tom Hanks and Eugene Levy hanging out with Daryl Hannah as she is getting turned into a mermaid 1984" @historyinmemes on X 2025-07-16 00:08:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 544.1K engagements
"Bob Dylan gets interviewed by Time magazine in D.A Pennebaker's film "Don't Look Back" (1967)" @historyinmemes on X 2025-07-21 12:08:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 118.5K engagements
"In 1960 during the USS Triton's covert 60-day underwater global voyage the only unauthorized person to detect the submarine was a Filipino man in a canoe who saw its periscope" @historyinmemes on X 2025-07-05 22:06:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 305.3K engagements
"This fish and chip shop has the right to the name "Wendy's" in the entire EU and is battling the fast food giant since 2000" @historyinmemes on X 2025-06-01 02:10:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 262.8K engagements
"The Rubik's Cube invented by Erno Rubik to teach 3D geometry has sold over XXX million units since 1980. Initially believing it unsolvable Rubik scrambled and solved it himself" @historyinmemes on X 2025-07-10 10:25:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 351.1K engagements
"A Google ad from 1999 promoting its search engine" @historyinmemes on X 2025-07-02 08:04:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 927.6K engagements
""They shall not grow old": two South Vietnamese child soldiers sharing a smoke as they wait for a coming North Vietnamese attack Vietnam war 1965-1975" @historyinmemes on X 2025-07-15 06:02:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 232.4K engagements
"During the 1970 Trooping the Colour parade a British foot guard collapses from heat and exhaustion as Queen Elizabeth II passes by despite the guards' rigorous training to remain motionless even at the risk of physical collapse" @historyinmemes on X 2025-07-15 16:12:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 390.3K engagements
"In 2015 Anthony Bourdain revisited Borneo and received a traditional hand-tapped tattoo from the Iban people fulfilling a promise he made ten years prior" @historyinmemes on X 2025-07-03 20:04:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 809.4K engagements
"In 2017 a truck hauling 7500 pounds of hagfish flipped on an Oregon highway spilling the eels and covering cars and the road in thick slime as they released their goo upon impact" @historyinmemes on X 2025-07-03 22:06:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 348.2K engagements
"Clippy a paperclip-shaped assistant in Microsoft Office XX offered tips and shortcuts but was criticized as intrusive and discontinued after Office 2003" @historyinmemes on X 2025-05-30 06:02:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 406K engagements
"Kanye West performing his poem '18 years' on Def Poetry Jam which was later added as a verse for his single 'Gold Digger' (2005)" @historyinmemes on X 2024-11-12 22:32:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 668.8K engagements
"Its crazy Tina Turner did this without a harness in heels and at the age of 70" @historyinmemes on X 2025-06-26 14:10:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 864.5K engagements
"In the early 1970s Jeremy Clarkson's mother created the first Paddington Bear toy making initial versions for Jeremy and his sister. The toy became a licensed product and its success funded Clarkson's education and helped launch his television career" @historyinmemes on X 2025-07-09 14:10:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 542.5K engagements
"In Biertan Romania a church used a "divorce room" to counsel couples seeking separation. For two weeks they were confined together with only one bed chair table plate and spoon to share. Over XXX years this method failed just once" @historyinmemes on X 2025-07-14 14:10:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 250.7K engagements
""The Uncensored Library" launched on March XX 2020 by Reporters Without Borders with DDB Berlin BlockWorks and MediaMonks is a massive Minecraft map designed to dodge censorship by hosting banned journalism from countries like Russia and Saudi Arabia. Built with XXXX million blocks in a neoclassical style it started with articles from five nations later expanding to include Brazil Eritrea and a COVID-19 room totaling over XXX virtual books by 2025. Using Minecrafts global reachover XXX million playersit went viral with thousands of downloads won a 2022 Peabody and targets young gamers to" @historyinmemes on X 2025-03-03 20:19:07 UTC 5.5M followers, 635.9K engagements
"Prince William's reaction when King Charles talked about his grandchildren's love for Pokemon" @historyinmemes on X 2025-07-17 04:12:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 268K engagements
"The world's oldest underground station Baker Street England over XXX years apart. (Originally built in 1863)" @historyinmemes on X 2025-07-21 00:08:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 201.9K engagements
"In the 1830s Dr. John Cook Bennett promoted tomato ketchup as a medicinal cure for issues like indigestion and diarrhea even creating pills from the recipe to sell as a health treatment" @historyinmemes on X 2025-07-12 00:08:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 163K engagements
"The most transited border in the world between San Diego California USA and Tijuana Baja California MX" @historyinmemes on X 2024-04-30 05:39:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 15.6M engagements
"In 1987 18-month-old "Baby Jessica" fell into a well in Midland Texas remaining trapped underground for XX hours. Her rescue gripped over XX million Americans watching live news broadcasts" @historyinmemes on X 2025-07-08 12:08:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 243.5K engagements
"Flashback to the late '90s and early 2000s when Burger King partnered with Rugrats to include those iconic watches in every Kids Club meal" @historyinmemes on X 2025-07-12 06:02:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 125.6K engagements
"In 1975 Gilda Radner auditioned for Saturday Night Live becoming the first cast member hired for the iconic show breaking ground for women in comedy" @historyinmemes on X 2025-07-07 18:02:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 173.9K engagements
"Charles Daniels a photographer from the '60s to '80s has about 3200 undeveloped rolls of film filled with shots of rock icons like Jimi Hendrix and Led Zeppelin" @historyinmemes on X 2025-07-09 10:06:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 273.5K engagements
"The LeBron James Nike commercial Swimming Pool (released in 2006) that birthed the popular "oh lord" audio" @historyinmemes on X 2025-07-15 12:08:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 172.4K engagements
"The expression "the whole nine yards" originated with WWII fighter pilots whose ammunition belts measured XX feet (nine yards). Using the entire belt meant they gave "the whole nine yards."" @historyinmemes on X 2025-07-06 14:10:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 264.9K engagements
"After the 1980 Moscow Olympics Adidas who supplied the event's sportswear left their manufacturing equipment in the USSR who then used it to mass produce general-purpose trainers for military use" @historyinmemes on X 2025-06-19 10:06:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 306.5K engagements
"Odell Beckham Jr. made one of the greatest one handed catch in NFL history (2014)" @historyinmemes on X 2025-06-11 00:08:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 141.3K engagements
"One of the few photos of Helen Keller posing with her eyes open 1913. NOTE: white spots are from damage to the original photo" @historyinmemes on X 2025-07-22 16:12:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 584.6K engagements
"Amy Winehouse's last performance in Belgrade wasn't just a concert it was a haunting chapter in music history. We lost her just weeks later" @historyinmemes on X 2025-06-07 12:08:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 8.9M engagements
"Radio Man is the most famous homeless movie star who has been featured in over XXX Hollywood films" @historyinmemes on X 2025-07-04 00:08:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 383.2K engagements
"Facing a severe drought in 2019 priests in India got X frogs married to gain favor from the God of Rains. Two months later the priests were forced to divorce the frogs to provide relief from the relentless rain that destroyed more than 9000 houses" @historyinmemes on X 2025-06-10 08:04:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 2.5M engagements
"In 1998 Monica Lewinsky a 22-year-old White House intern presented a dress stained with semen confirming her affair with President Bill Clinton" @historyinmemes on X 2025-07-10 22:06:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 1.4M engagements
"The Fata Morgana is an intricate mirage where images of far-off objects like boats on water appear to hover above the sea" @historyinmemes on X 2025-06-27 20:04:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 444.2K engagements
"Mao Zedong gets shocked by the height of Henry Kissinger's wife" @historyinmemes on X 2025-07-18 12:08:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 4.1M engagements
"The beat for Many Men was made by Digga in '99. It was first given to Camron then Nas - both passed. XX made history with it" @historyinmemes on X 2025-06-11 16:12:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 676.4K engagements
"The earliest known surviving pair of socks from ancient Egypt 300-500AD" @historyinmemes on X 2025-05-07 18:02:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 589.4K engagements
"Surya Bonaly 1998 Winter Olympics "first and last" backflip" @historyinmemes on X 2025-07-17 18:02:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 907.1K engagements
"Do you think Epstein really killed himself" @historyinmemes on X 2025-07-11 18:48:28 UTC 5.5M followers, 291.8K engagements
"In 1912 Danish explorer Ejnar Mikkelsen was photographed following two and a half years stranded in Greenland alongside Iver Iversen where they faced extreme isolation starvation and hallucinations" @historyinmemes on X 2025-07-09 22:06:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 489.5K engagements
"In 2009 Muammar Gaddafi lured XXX Italian models to an event billed as glamorous but instead gave them copies of the Quran and his Green Book then delivered a one-hour lecture on Islam" @historyinmemes on X 2025-07-07 20:04:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 446.3K engagements
"In 2016 Luna an 18-month-old German Shepherd fell off a boat swam X miles to an island and survived X weeks eating mice until the Navy rescued her slightly malnourished but healthy" @historyinmemes on X 2025-07-11 14:10:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 211.4K engagements
"In 2009 a four-year-old boy from Essex discovered a 16th-century gold pendant just minutes into a metal detecting outing now showcased at the British Museum" @historyinmemes on X 2025-07-16 14:10:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 382.6K engagements
"Your typical 1970s traffic. Almost every car was American made" @historyinmemes on X 2025-07-20 22:06:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 172.4K engagements
"Coast Guard ship riding over the tsunami waves that hit Japan in 2011" @historyinmemes on X 2025-07-06 10:06:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 997K engagements
"To this day I had no clue Billy Ray Cyrus sang this intro" @historyinmemes on X 2025-07-12 16:12:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 506.8K engagements
"In 1996 a man faked being the cousin of FIFA World Player of the Year George Weah lied about playing for PSG and Senegal and convinced a Premier League team to sign him he actually played XX minutes before they realized he was a fraud" @historyinmemes on X 2025-07-01 14:10:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 2M engagements
"When Bill Gates tried to explain the internet in 1995. and people laughed" @historyinmemes on X 2025-07-23 22:06:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 259.8K engagements
"Three Decades later this man will play one of the greatest villains in film history" @historyinmemes on X 2025-07-12 22:06:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 545.6K engagements
"Pink Floyd's The Wall forms a continuous loop as the closing track ends with "Isn't this where." and the opening track begins with ".we came in" This lyrical and musical link implies an endless cycle echoing Roger Waters' themes of repetition and circularity" @historyinmemes on X 2025-07-09 16:12:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 262.4K engagements
"The Boeing Everett Factory is the worlds largest building by volume and covers almost XXX acres" @historyinmemes on X 2025-07-18 22:06:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 175.2K engagements
"Adele singing "Someone Like You" as she's signing divorce papers is iconic" @historyinmemes on X 2025-07-21 14:10:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 223.2K engagements
"This is one of the oldest songs ever discovered. Over 3000 years old - found on a clay tablet in ancient Syria" @historyinmemes on X 2025-07-17 12:08:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 379.3K engagements
"In April 2021 India's lunar orbiter photographed the Apollo XX and Apollo XX landing sites providing evidence that refutes Moon landing conspiracy theories" @historyinmemes on X 2025-07-23 10:06:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 508.6K engagements
"Autotune invented in 1997: Singers in 1996:" @historyinmemes on X 2025-06-22 02:10:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 13.2M engagements
"It wont be long until these are in every home" @historyinmemes on X 2025-07-09 21:51:34 UTC 5.5M followers, 225.5K engagements
"Behind the scenes of "The Great Gatsby" 2013" @historyinmemes on X 2025-07-06 18:02:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 563.9K engagements
"Ben Affleck is distantly related to Princess Diana and XX U.S. presidents including Barack Obama his 11th cousin" @historyinmemes on X 2025-07-11 12:08:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 488.6K engagements
"Photos from 1936 show a cat rocking a Brnnhilde costume straight out of Wagner's Ring Cycle with full-on armor and a winged helmet" @historyinmemes on X 2025-07-06 02:10:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 353.3K engagements
"Chrysler offered Bruce Springsteen $XX million to use "Born in the U.S.A." in a commercial but he declined and continues to prohibit his music from being used to advertise consumer products" @historyinmemes on X 2025-07-10 08:04:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 169.5K engagements
"In May 2021 a snorkeler in Norfolk Island (Australia) found a mans missing wedding ring wrapped around a fishs body" @historyinmemes on X 2025-04-30 20:04:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 761K engagements
"The way Barack paused while talking whenever Kamala turned to look😂" @historyinmemes on X 2025-07-05 08:04:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 400.3K engagements
"The greatest entrance in the history of music goes to James Brown back when the powder was pure" @historyinmemes on X 2025-06-21 12:08:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 1.6M engagements
"Lady Diana falling asleep during an official royal engagement 1981. She was actually pregnant with Prince William at the time but her pregnancy had yet to be announced" @historyinmemes on X 2025-06-14 16:12:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 315.5K engagements
"Federico Castelluccio (Furio) bought a painting at auction and had it restored for a total of $140000 then figured out it was actually from an earlier century and worth about $XX million" @historyinmemes on X 2025-07-15 22:06:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 869.3K engagements
"Divers discover giant 'Doomsday Fish' off the coast of Taiwan" @historyinmemes on X 2024-02-04 20:13:34 UTC 5.5M followers, 50.2M engagements
"Muhammad Ali despite suffering heavily from Parkinson's lit the Olympic flame to begin the Olympics games" @historyinmemes on X 2025-07-17 14:10:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 188.1K engagements
"Miss Correct Posture 1956. At a chiropractic convention in May of 1956 in Chicago the contest winners were picked for the beauty of their X-rays and their standing posture" @historyinmemes on X 2025-07-13 18:02:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 185.1K engagements
"Christina Applegate & David Faustino on his birthday 1992" @historyinmemes on X 2025-07-20 04:12:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 340.4K engagements
"Michael Jackson realizing they're taking pictures of him every time he moves 1998" @historyinmemes on X 2025-07-13 08:04:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 570.1K engagements
"In July 1977 a massive power outage struck all five New York City boroughs plunging them into darkness and sparking widespread looting and arson resulting in nearly 4000 arrests; the event became known as "The Night of Terror."" @historyinmemes on X 2025-07-08 02:10:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 155.9K engagements
"In 1870 Italy completed its unification by defeating the Papal States which contained Rome. Though his army was outnumbered the Pope insisted on symbolic resistance before surrendering resulting in XX deaths. Rome was captured and the Popes territory was eventually reduced to Vatican City" @historyinmemes on X 2025-07-16 18:02:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 563.5K engagements
"The banned Dead Loop of Olga Korbut in the 1972 Olympics. It was the first and last time the trick was documented" @historyinmemes on X 2025-06-30 06:02:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 27.5M engagements
"Robert Trujillo nailed his audition so perfectly that they not only gave him the role of Metallica's bassist but also $1000000 on the spot in 2003" @historyinmemes on X 2025-07-24 02:10:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 61K engagements
"Conor McGregor devastated after losing to Khabib" @historyinmemes on X 2025-07-14 22:06:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 730.7K engagements
"In 1983 the legendary Diana Ross drew a crowd of over 800000 people to New York's Central Park for a free concert" @historyinmemes on X 2025-06-22 00:08:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 179.1K engagements
"Between 1946 and 1958 the United States conducted XX nuclear tests at Bikini Atoll including atomic and hydrogen bomb detonations" @historyinmemes on X 2025-07-07 02:10:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 1.7M engagements
"In 1961 Queen Elizabeth Il visited Iran on an official royal tour. She met with the Shah explored ancient sites like Persepolis and experienced the heart of Persian heritage" @historyinmemes on X 2025-05-30 18:02:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 158.6K engagements
"Throwback when Eminem was trying to promote his new album in New York" @historyinmemes on X 2025-07-14 20:04:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 582.6K engagements
"In 2008 during a Baghdad press conference with Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki Iraqi journalist Muntadhar al-Zaidi hurled his shoes at U.S. President George W. Bush" @historyinmemes on X 2025-06-24 00:48:36 UTC 5.5M followers, 520.6K engagements
"Woman pointing a gun at a computer for some reason 1998" @historyinmemes on X 2025-03-08 21:48:49 UTC 5.5M followers, 4.8M engagements
"In Arizona's scorching 2017 heatwave air temperatures soared to 47C (116F) with concrete and asphalt reaching 76C (168F) leading to sagging mailboxes warped trash bins and melting road signs" @historyinmemes on X 2025-07-11 22:06:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 208.7K engagements
"Khleo Thomas known for portraying Zero in the 2003 movie Holes won a Mortal Kombat tournament while costumed as Powerline from A Goofy Movie" @historyinmemes on X 2025-07-09 20:02:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 189.4K engagements
"In 2013 two researchers in Antarctica achieved the continent's first recorded Tinder matchone based at McMurdo Station the other camping in the Dry Valleys roughly XX minutes apart by helicopter" @historyinmemes on X 2025-07-12 02:10:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 154K engagements
"Tom Cruise and Will Smith on top of the Burj Khalifa skyscraper in Dubai" @historyinmemes on X 2025-07-23 02:10:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 1.2M engagements
"In 1996 Bjrk attacked a reporter Julie Kaufman at the Bangkok airport. Kaufman claimed Bjrk attacked her after she said "Welcome to Bangkok"" @historyinmemes on X 2025-07-16 08:04:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 2.7M engagements
"10 years ago this dress was posted on tumblr causing a viral debate on whether it was blue and black or white and gold. The phenomenon revealed differences in human color perception and became the subject of scientific investigations into neuroscience and vision science" @historyinmemes on X 2025-06-30 14:10:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 2M engagements
"This was Kim Kardashian before the fame and the billions" @historyinmemes on X 2025-05-27 16:12:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 2.8M engagements
"Richard Lasher was on his way to ride his dirt bike when Mt. St. Helens erupted in front of him" @historyinmemes on X 2025-06-15 16:12:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 581.4K engagements
"The difference in floodwater cleanliness in subways: USA vs Japan" @historyinmemes on X 2025-06-24 20:04:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 17.8M engagements
"Shaharah Bridge is a 17th-century limestone marvel in Yemens Ahnum Mountains spanning a 300ft gorge to connect villages designed to collapse swiftly against invaders and solve ancient trade challenges" @historyinmemes on X 2025-06-29 08:04:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 250.1K engagements
"In April 2012 a team of researchers intentionally conducted a controlled crash of a former Alaska Airlines Boeing XXX. This event took place in Mexico and aimed to investigate a genuine aircraft crash scenario. While many believe that surviving a plane crash is unlikely this study revealed a different reality. The research indicated that passengers seated in the aircraft's front section were most vulnerable during the simulation. Individuals situated near the wings might sustain injuries but these injuries were not deemed life-threatening. Interestingly passengers positioned at the back of" @historyinmemes on X 2023-08-07 23:13:59 UTC 5.5M followers, 20M engagements
"Kevin Hart allegedly caught on camera in Diddy freak off video" @historyinmemes on X 2024-09-27 17:19:47 UTC 5.5M followers, 399.5K engagements
"Kary Perry turned down this collaboration so Gotye found a girl with similar look and voice to her" @historyinmemes on X 2025-06-21 20:04:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 3M engagements
"Mike Posner wrote 'Boyfriend' for himself before his label made him give it to Justin Bieber" @historyinmemes on X 2025-06-18 06:02:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 236K engagements
"Sissel Kyrkjeb the singer you never knew was behind Titanic's score" @historyinmemes on X 2025-07-08 08:04:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 205K engagements
"The insane evolution of artificial intelligence in just XX months" @historyinmemes on X 2025-07-21 20:04:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 165.5K engagements
"Hawaiian pizza was invented in Canada in 1962 by a Greek immigrant who added canned pineapplenamed after the brand usedinspired by Chinese sweet-savory flavors. It gained global popularity especially in Australia" @historyinmemes on X 2025-06-04 22:06:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 865.5K engagements
"In 1990 two men executed the largest art heist in U.S. history stealing $XXX million in artwork by overpowering and tying up museum guards. Described as courteous they checked on the guards' well-being before fleeing. The case remains unsolved" @historyinmemes on X 2025-07-14 10:06:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 316.6K engagements
"The Notorious B.I.G. performed his final concert in a wheelchair on December XX 1996" @historyinmemes on X 2025-07-19 10:06:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 466.5K engagements
"Leslie Nielsen was known to bring a fart machine to his interviews and press appearances" @historyinmemes on X 2025-07-07 08:04:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 242.6K engagements
"A rare photo of North Korean leader Kim Il Sung showing a tumor on his neck. Photographers were forbidden to photograph the right side of his face (1980s)" @historyinmemes on X 2025-07-12 14:10:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 451.3K engagements
"37-year-old news broadcast from early May 1988 when there was a growing panic that French astrologer Nostradamus might have predicted that "The Big One" would finally hit that week and decimate Los Angeles" @historyinmemes on X 2025-07-01 02:10:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 252.6K engagements
"In 2012 Guy Fieri taught Drake how to cook and in return Drake gave Fieri's nephew a signed OVO hoodie" @historyinmemes on X 2025-07-15 14:10:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 432.9K engagements
"When Robert downey Jr. visited wall street in 1992 and was instantly horrified" @historyinmemes on X 2025-07-14 08:04:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 144.4K engagements
"In 2013 a couple walking their dog in Northern California discovered eight rusty cans containing 1427 gold coins buried on their land. Dubbed the Saddle Ridge Hoard the coins dating from 1847 to 1894 were worth approximately $XX million" @historyinmemes on X 2025-07-18 02:10:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 315.2K engagements
"That time XX Cent tried so hard not to laugh at Jim Carrey's dancing" @historyinmemes on X 2024-10-14 11:32:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 19.6M engagements
"In 2001 Brazilian skater Bob Burnquist pulled off one of the greatest comebacks in skateboarding history" @historyinmemes on X 2025-07-21 18:02:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 985.3K engagements
"Steven Phillips spent XX years in a Texas prison for crimes he didnt commit and was exonerated by DNA evidence in 2008. He received $X million in compensation. His ex-wife sued for a share but in 2014 the court ruled the money was for personal injury and solely his" @historyinmemes on X 2025-07-15 10:06:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 613.9K engagements
"In 2010 101-year-old Zhang Ruifang from China developed a X cm cutaneous horn on her forehead primarily composed of keratin the protein found in hair and nails" @historyinmemes on X 2025-06-26 18:02:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 801K engagements
"Couples having fun inside of photobooth from 1930s to 1950s" @historyinmemes on X 2025-07-13 10:06:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 299.8K engagements
"A rich couple shopping for a television in 1963" @historyinmemes on X 2025-07-20 08:04:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 198.2K engagements
"A photos of Mohamed Bzeek when he started fostering terminally children and what he looks like today. To date he has fostered over XX children" @historyinmemes on X 2025-07-02 02:10:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 1.5M engagements
"Aaron Judge was adopted the day after his birth in 1992 by two California teachers. At around XX years old he realized he was adopted after noticing physical differences between himself and his parents" @historyinmemes on X 2025-07-19 02:10:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 8.6M engagements
"The Cave of the Swimmers features 8000-year-old depictions of human figures seemingly floating or swimming in the middle of the Sahara Desert" @historyinmemes on X 2025-07-05 06:02:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 231.2K engagements
"21-year-old John Travolta showing off his smooth dance moves in "Welcome Back Kotter"" @historyinmemes on X 2025-07-22 00:08:02 UTC 5.5M followers, 444.2K engagements
"In 1966 the British Society for the Protection of Miniskirts rallied outside the House of Dior with many protesting the "unfair" criticism of miniskirts" @historyinmemes on X 2025-07-13 16:12:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 154.1K engagements
"After his presidency former U.S. President Jimmy Carter became known for his hands-on humanitarian work. This 1987 photo shows Carter and volunteers from Habitat for Humanity building homes for struggling families in Charlotte North Carolina" @historyinmemes on X 2025-07-13 02:10:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 176K engagements
"In 1953 the Marine Angel biggest vessel to travel the Chicago River managed to wind its way through downtown. This steel hull behemoth at nearly XXX feet long (193m) and XX feet wide (21.3m) according to a Chicago Tribune account had only seven inches of clearance on each side" @historyinmemes on X 2025-07-19 14:10:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 118.7K engagements
"Never forget when Joe Rogan almost destroyed a Fear Factor contestant in 2005" @historyinmemes on X 2025-05-29 06:02:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 1.3M engagements
"The early days of camera phones and texting photos in 2001" @historyinmemes on X 2025-07-05 16:12:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 190K engagements
"A University of Auckland study revealed that dogs experience "primordial jealousy" when their owner displays affection toward another creature showing an instinctive emotional reaction not rooted in prior experiences" @historyinmemes on X 2025-07-16 20:04:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 676.6K engagements
"A whaling suit from Greenland crafted sometime before 1834 was designed to keep Inuit hunters dry during dangerous sea hunts" @historyinmemes on X 2025-07-11 16:12:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 424.7K engagements
"In 1985 Queen gave one of the most iconic performances at Live Aid in all of history" @historyinmemes on X 2025-06-26 02:10:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 437.9K engagements
"In Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope (1977) the crew made Luke Skywalkers landspeeder appear to hover over Tatooine by mounting angled mirrors on its sides. These mirrors reflected the desert ground cleverly hiding the wheels and creating the illusion of a floating speederno CGI needed" @historyinmemes on X 2025-07-13 12:08:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 1M engagements
"During filming of "The Seven Year Itch" in 1954 over 1500 New Yorkers swarmed 51st Street to watch Marilyn Monroe's dress fly up. The crowd chanted "Higher Higher" as they gawked enraging Monroe's husband Joe DiMaggio. He beat her so badly that night that she filed for divorce three weeks later" @historyinmemes on X 2025-07-23 14:10:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 394.9K engagements
"Diego Maradona's daughter picks flowers for her father which he proudly wears during training (1989)" @historyinmemes on X 2025-07-03 10:49:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 7.9M engagements
"Chris Smith a man with a real-life girlfriend and child created an AI chatbot named Sol to engage in flirtatious interactions. He proposed to the chatbot claiming to feel genuine love for it despite the strain this has put on his actual relationship" @historyinmemes on X 2025-07-10 06:02:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 142.3K engagements
"Black soldiers share their racism experience in Vietnam in the 70s" @historyinmemes on X 2025-07-22 02:10:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 146.4K engagements
"3000 men who were part of building Chase Manhattan Bank pose for a photo at the end of construction work 1964" @historyinmemes on X 2024-12-21 15:29:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 925.6K engagements
"In 2000 13-year-old Lionel Messi traveled to Spain to join Barcelona signing his contract on a napkin a moment now legendary in football history" @historyinmemes on X 2025-07-16 12:08:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 344.5K engagements
"George Bush flips off the camera in a "one-fingered victory salute" while preparing for a TV interview" @historyinmemes on X 2025-07-18 16:12:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 153.1K engagements
"The evolution of Barron Trump throughout the years" @historyinmemes on X 2024-10-28 08:32:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 16.2M engagements
"Politicians doing the Macarena and Hillary Clinton cheerfully clapping DNC 1996" @historyinmemes on X 2023-11-20 06:30:45 UTC 5.5M followers, 4.6M engagements
"Vertical airplane seats slated for potential debut next year could increase passenger capacity by XX% and offer ultra-low fares starting at $5" @historyinmemes on X 2025-07-09 00:08:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 3.7M engagements
"Kate Middleton and Prince William's post-clubbing taxi pics from the 2000s" @historyinmemes on X 2023-04-08 16:43:31 UTC 5.5M followers, 890.5K engagements
"This clip shows the iconic moment during the Opening Ceremony of Barcelona 1992 when the Olympic Flame was lit by archer Antonio Rebollo" @historyinmemes on X 2024-01-05 21:32:14 UTC 5.5M followers, 28.8M engagements
"During the 2024 Minnesota Timberwolves playoff run two Minnesota tattoo artists offered $XX "Naz Reid" tattoos to anyone interested" @historyinmemes on X 2025-07-19 22:06:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 157.5K engagements
"Kanye West spent $7m on a Super Bowl commercial but $X on the production and filmed it from his phone instead" @historyinmemes on X 2024-02-13 14:16:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 34.5M engagements
"Knife grinders in France in the early 1900s. They worked lying down to save their backs and had dogs sit on their legs for warmth" @historyinmemes on X 2025-07-18 04:12:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 286.4K engagements
"In 2016 during an Egyptian flight hijacking by a man with explosives a British passenger requested a photo amid the chaos" @historyinmemes on X 2025-07-11 20:04:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 351.9K engagements
"One of the most chilling moments in the history of sport which to this day seems unbelievable" @historyinmemes on X 2025-06-29 18:02:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 510K engagements
"This is what post-trauma looked like after World War I (1914-1918)" @historyinmemes on X 2025-06-05 02:10:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 7.2M engagements
"Back in 2019 Cristiano Ronaldo paid a $XXXX million fine in court. and walked out like nothing ever happened" @historyinmemes on X 2025-07-23 08:04:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 916.5K engagements
"Saudi Arabia has deployed solar-powered laser beacons in the Al Nafud Desert to guide lost travelers to water sources" @historyinmemes on X 2025-06-04 20:04:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 681.4K engagements
"Celine Dion was told that if she couldn't hit the high note Whitney Houston was on standby. She responded with this" @historyinmemes on X 2025-07-21 06:02:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 747.9K engagements
"In 1993 during a U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee hearing focused on gun control Joe Biden held a Tec-9 firearm" @historyinmemes on X 2025-07-09 04:12:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 198.8K engagements
"A farmers wife having dinner with her three children in Box Elder County Utah 1940. On the table are home-produced milk homemade bread home-canned peaches home-churned butter and fish caught by her children" @historyinmemes on X 2025-06-25 22:06:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 244.9K engagements
"800 Amish men in Ohio lifting and carrying an entire barn XXX feet without using a single piece of heavy machinery" @historyinmemes on X 2025-06-15 12:08:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 341.6K engagements
"During weapons testing in post-war Germany engineers developed massive sound suppression structures to reduce the deafening blast of artillery fire" @historyinmemes on X 2025-07-18 20:04:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 178.9K engagements
"Watch Katy Perry attempt to crowd surf in 2008" @historyinmemes on X 2025-05-03 10:06:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 5.8M engagements
"In the late '90s and early 2000s PlayStation launched special-edition wines to mark major milestones such as reaching XX million units sold in North America" @historyinmemes on X 2025-07-06 08:04:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 244.7K engagements
"Horacio Pagani the genius founder of Pagani Automobili chilling on a plastic chair outside a little Mexican shop" @historyinmemes on X 2025-07-17 00:08:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 579.5K engagements
"In 2007 Putin intentionally brought his black Labrador Koni to a meeting with German Chancellor Angela Merkel knowing she was afraid of dogs" @historyinmemes on X 2025-07-15 20:04:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 902K engagements
"Swedish King Eric XIV's armor made in 1562 was ahead of its time for its remarkable flexibility" @historyinmemes on X 2025-07-20 12:08:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 475.6K engagements
"Johnny Knoxville pranking Gabourey Sidibe with a chair made out of cake 2023" @historyinmemes on X 2025-06-02 12:08:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 8.8M engagements
"Kickin Jeans also known as Action Jeans were popular from 1977 to 1991. They looked like classic western jeans but featured stretch denim that let you move like a stuntman" @historyinmemes on X 2025-07-12 08:04:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 213.9K engagements
"Footage of a US submarine launching a $XX million ballistic missile" @historyinmemes on X 2025-07-12 20:04:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 303.3K engagements
"When Prince Harry ran to his helicopter during a television interview while serving in Afghanistan (2013)" @historyinmemes on X 2025-07-04 22:06:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 33.5M engagements
"Some of the most impressive plastic surgeries from the 1960's" @historyinmemes on X 2025-07-18 06:02:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 279.2K engagements
"Michelle Pfeiffer and Coolio during the filming of the music video "Gangsta's Paradise" directed by Antoine Fuqua in Los Angeles California circa 1995" @historyinmemes on X 2025-07-20 06:02:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 345.4K engagements
"Before and After Excavation of an Ancient Stadium in Modern-Day Turkey: 1984 vs. Today This is the Stadium of Magnesia ad Maendrum in the ancient city located in modern-day Aydin/Germencik Turkey. Originally founded by Alexander the Great Magnesia underwent various changes in leadership by the Diadochi who were the competing generals families and allies of Alexander the Great vying for control of his empire after his passing. Magnesia reached its cultural zenith during the rule of the Pergamum kingdom in the 2nd century BC and is mentioned in the writings of notable historians such as" @historyinmemes on X 2023-11-03 21:47:04 UTC 5.5M followers, 3.1M engagements
"Tim Dillon Goes Off on Epstein Pam Bondi and Ghislaine Maxwell" @historyinmemes on X 2025-07-21 19:22:32 UTC 5.5M followers, 125K engagements
"In 1943 the British Army dressed a corpse as a fake officer planted it with deceptive invasion plans and let it drift to Spain's shore. The Germans fell for the trick redeploying forces which aided the Allied victory in Sicily" @historyinmemes on X 2025-07-04 16:12:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 256.5K engagements
"Between 1995 and 1998 Sofia Vergara and Fernando Fiero cohosted Univision's Fuera de Serie exploring different cities to highlight their culture cuisine landmarks and nightlife" @historyinmemes on X 2025-07-01 12:08:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 2.5M engagements
"Tom Brown an engineer dedicated XX years to preserving approximately 1200 apple varieties from extinction" @historyinmemes on X 2025-07-04 12:08:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 645.7K engagements
"A picture of Bashar al-Assad discovered by looters in his residence following the collapse of his regime in December 2024" @historyinmemes on X 2025-07-05 02:10:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 663.9K engagements
"Shelley Duvall was spotted by Robert Altman at a Houston Texas party where she was selling cosmetics with no prior acting experience or ambitions. He cast her in Brewster McCloud launching her career. She passed away at XX leaving a beloved legacy" @historyinmemes on X 2025-07-15 08:04:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 357.9K engagements
"Just XX year old Jerry Seinfeld and his XX year old girlfriend in 1993" @historyinmemes on X 2025-06-25 08:04:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 2.6M engagements
"Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping bodyguards acknowledging each other" @historyinmemes on X 2024-06-03 11:20:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 55.9M engagements
"17 days before he died Roy Orbison did this show which became his only public performance of the song 'You Got It'" @historyinmemes on X 2025-06-17 18:02:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 431.4K engagements
"Haid al-Jazil a XXX year old mud-brick village built on a massive boulder in Wadi Dawan Yemen" @historyinmemes on X 2025-07-01 06:02:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 573.2K engagements
"Khalid bin Mohsen Shaari once the world's heaviest man shed over 1190 pounds following a critical intervention by the Saudi king reducing his weight from 1345 pounds to XXX pounds" @historyinmemes on X 2025-07-23 12:08:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 331.8K engagements
"In Rain Man (1988) Dustin Hoffman accidentally farted during the phone booth scene. The moment was unscripted and both Hoffman's and Tom Cruise's reactions were improvised" @historyinmemes on X 2025-06-11 14:10:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 3.8M engagements
"Queen Elizabeth II only bowed X times in her whole life (1952-2022)" @historyinmemes on X 2025-07-07 06:02:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 1.6M engagements
"Mariah Carey hilariously not knowing what an electricity bill is 2009" @historyinmemes on X 2025-07-14 18:02:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 464.3K engagements
"YouTube's Co-founders felt depressed with just XX videos on their platform" @historyinmemes on X 2025-06-17 20:04:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 646.8K engagements
"In 2012 five robbers on three motorcycles stormed a London jewelry store through a mall stealing $X million in goods in two minutes. No arrests were made" @historyinmemes on X 2025-07-13 22:06:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 1.8M engagements
"That time Mariah Carey had to take a seat after delivering one of the best vocal runs in history 2001" @historyinmemes on X 2025-05-31 10:06:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 522.9K engagements
"In 2022 a 1-million-liter aquarium burst in a Berlin hotel lobby killing 1500 fish" @historyinmemes on X 2025-07-23 04:12:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 193.2K engagements
"Fred Figglehorn a fictional character created by Lucas Cruikshank in 2006 for YouTube gained fame as one of the earliest viral YouTube stars due to his high-pitched voice and frenetic energy" @historyinmemes on X 2025-07-14 12:08:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 398.7K engagements
"In 1949 a U.S. senator tried to outlaw popcorn in movie theaters. At a Senate hearing on the issue another senator distributed free popcorn. The proposed ban never became law" @historyinmemes on X 2025-07-02 20:04:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 159.2K engagements
"In 2023 XX people lost their lives while trying to take photos at scenic viewpoints in Rio de Janeiro" @historyinmemes on X 2025-07-21 22:06:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 1.1M engagements
"Mike Tyson had a XX inch (50.8 cm) neck at the age of XX. "I paid a worker at New York's zoo to re-open it just for me and Robin. When we got to the gorilla cage there was one big silverback gorilla there just bullying all the other gorillas. They were so powerful but their eyes were like an innocent infant. I offered the attendant $10000 to open the cage and let me smash that silverback's snot box. He declined." - Mike Tyson" @historyinmemes on X 2024-11-15 21:49:20 UTC 5.5M followers, 46.6M engagements
"On September XX First Lady Laura Bush was moved to a secure White House bunker for protection. A separate covert bunker constructed in 1962 to protect Congress was hidden beneath The Greenbrier resort and remained undisclosed until 1992" @historyinmemes on X 2025-07-13 06:02:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 139.2K engagements
"African President takes a seat before Putin does" @historyinmemes on X 2024-02-29 22:31:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 41.6M engagements
"I still cant believe horse diving was a real sport in the early 1900s" @historyinmemes on X 2025-07-11 10:06:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 982K engagements
"AVICII playing "Levels" for the first time at Tomorrowland 2011" @historyinmemes on X 2025-06-26 08:04:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 974.1K engagements
"In Japan's Edo period (16031868) wealthy women employed female servants known as "heoibikani" to accept responsibility for their flatulence" @historyinmemes on X 2025-07-16 16:12:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 265.3K engagements
"Paul Tibbets described the Hiroshima mission as the "most boring flight of his life"" @historyinmemes on X 2025-07-20 14:10:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 422.5K engagements
"Flying the B-2 Bomber burns $200k in fuel in only XX hours" @historyinmemes on X 2025-07-07 04:12:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 523.5K engagements
"12 years ago daft punk and pharrell williams released 'get lucky'" @historyinmemes on X 2025-07-06 20:04:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 287.2K engagements
"Obama sitting in a classroom alone rewriting his remarks before speaking at the memorial service for the victims of the Sandy Hook school shooting 2012" @historyinmemes on X 2025-07-20 00:08:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 185.5K engagements
"President Obama signs the Affordable Care Act in 2010launching a healthcare reform that has provided coverage to more than XX million Americans over the past decade" @historyinmemes on X 2025-07-05 12:38:03 UTC 5.5M followers, 661.7K engagements
"Rare behind-the-scenes footage of the election victory" @historyinmemes on X 2025-07-14 04:12:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 243.8K engagements
"When Drake thought Nicki was being rude to a random lady but it was her nail technician (2015)" @historyinmemes on X 2025-07-22 12:08:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 256.1K engagements
"Tyler is the only person walking on earth who can make Diddy uncomfortable" @historyinmemes on X 2025-07-15 04:12:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 205.3K engagements
"In 1947 a young Princess Elizabeth was filmed playing tag with sailors aboard the HMS Vanguard during a royal tour to South Africa" @historyinmemes on X 2025-07-06 16:12:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 458.9K engagements
"Chilling cockpit voice recordings from Alaska Airlines Flight XXX which nosedived into the ocean tragically claiming all XX lives on board (2000)" @historyinmemes on X 2025-05-18 20:04:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 13.3M engagements
"In 1996 during a concert in Seoul a fan climbed up to Michael Jackson on a crane" @historyinmemes on X 2025-07-10 18:02:01 UTC 5.5M followers, 782K engagements
"The earliest known "Beware of Dog" sign is a Pompeii tile mosaic depicting a dog with the Latin phrase "Cave Canem" meaning "beware" (caveat) and "dog" (canine)" @historyinmemes on X 2025-06-26 22:06:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 321.6K engagements
"On May X 1994 Formula 1's darkest day legendary three-time world champion Ayrton Senna tragically crashed at 190mph during the San Marino Grand Prix at Imola" @historyinmemes on X 2025-07-08 06:02:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 835.5K engagements
"German officer greeted by a U.S. soldier in Paris (1944)" @historyinmemes on X 2025-06-19 20:04:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 389.8K engagements
"Twitters mascot Larry the Bird was purchased for $34000 just to be lugged on the back of a Cybertruck and exploded in the most spectacular way" @historyinmemes on X 2025-07-04 20:01:38 UTC 5.5M followers, 387.5K engagements
"In 2003 two months following the U.S. invasion of Iraq President George W. Bush delivered the "Mission Accomplished" speech" @historyinmemes on X 2025-07-19 18:02:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 123.2K engagements
"Mike Tyson owned three Bengal tigersKenya Storm and Boriseach priced above $50000. As they became too big to handle he donated two to a sanctuary but kept Kenya for XX years" @historyinmemes on X 2025-07-16 04:12:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 420.6K engagements
"A father grieving the loss of his 16-year-old son in a car accident donated his sons heart and the recipient filled with gratitude gifted the father a teddy bear with a recording of his sons heartbeat as a touching gesture of remembrance" @historyinmemes on X 2025-07-18 18:02:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 161.5K engagements
"Without Googling name one thing from South Korea" @historyinmemes on X 2024-10-31 23:43:47 UTC 5.5M followers, 816.6K engagements
"2010 photo of Asia Bibi a Christian Pakistani woman sentenced to death for blasphemy with Punjab Governor Salman Taseer. After publicly supporting her Taseer was assassinated in 2011 by his bodyguard who saw his stance as a betrayal of Islam. Bibi was acquitted after X years on death row" @historyinmemes on X 2025-07-07 16:12:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 422.1K engagements
"Gamers have logged more than XX billion hours equivalent to XXXX million years playing Call of Dutysurpassing the entire timeline of human history" @historyinmemes on X 2025-07-15 18:02:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 14.3M engagements
"A man named Darren Charles Crowder stole a NASCAR pace car during a race at Talladega Superspeedway (1986)" @historyinmemes on X 2025-07-06 04:12:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 187K engagements
"I can't unsee Jay Z looking like he's recording people with his ring" @historyinmemes on X 2025-07-23 06:02:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 9.4M engagements
"That time when Mister Rogers crashed the set of Wheel of Fortune during a taping in his hometown of Pittsburgh PA & the crowd proceeded to lose their minds 1998" @historyinmemes on X 2025-07-06 06:02:00 UTC 5.5M followers, 327.3K engagements