Earth_Wanderer

Life in the 1990s ~ A Thread 🧵 

1. 1990s vs Now. 

3. How 90s parents taught kids how to swim.
 

4. Throwback to the 90s when celebrities all looked naturally unique 
 

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5. Frat party in the 90s, not a single phone in sight 
 

6. If you're from the 90s and this song doesn't give you flashbacks you're lying. 
 

7. Some disappeared stuffs from 60s - 90s.
 

8. Robert Downey Jr visiting Wall Street for a documentary in the early 90s 
 

9. 90s Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit.
 

10. The absolute chokehold this corner computer desk setup had on us in the late 90s/2000s 
 

11. Who remembers this classic Nike ad 'Brazil v Portugal, starring some massive names from the 90s and 00s! 
 

12. In the '90s, kids dining at Chuck E. Cheese were treated to this experience in Lynwood, WA in 1995. 
 

13. Jim Ross reporting live from Montgomery, Alabama...90s 
 

14. How we use to blocked people in 1980s and 90s 

15. Living in the 90s compilation CD, 1995 
 

16. Back in the late 90s, Trump appeared in a commercial for Cozone, a website launched by the now-defunct CompUSA. 
 

17. Me to Google Maps the second I'm not lost anymore 
 

18. People going crazy and passing out just from Michael Jackson standing still. 
 

21. Mike Tyson in the 1990s got a pet tiger because he wanted to connect with an animal that shared his own strength and intensity. This was his idea of having fun. 
 

Thread of Cool Maps That Will Make You Amazed 🧵

1. List Of Countries Mentioned Or Referred In The Bible 

2. Light blue is a map as we know it and dark blue is the actual size of each country 

3. States with a smaller population than Los Angeles County 

4. Everybody alive today compared to everybody who has ever lived 

5. Native American land loss from 1776 to 1930 
 

7. Pangea, the supercontinent that existed around 300 million years ago, shown with the borders of modern countries. 

10. How the rest of the world sees the USA 

11. The Mississippi River and its tributaries. 

13. The real size of Africa. 

Most people are shocked when they see the real size of Africa because the most commonly used map of the world, the Mercator projection, features a significantly distorted size of countries and continents. 

14. The Kiss of the oceans, a postcard-map from 1923 

16. This GIF by Jakub Nowosad demonstrates how the Mercator projection distorts the true sizes of continents and countries on a world map. 
 

17. Sunshine duration in hours per year. USA and Europe 

18. The British have invaded almost every country on Earth. 

20. A map of Europe by each nation's most iconic artwork 

21. Is there a reason why this group of countries end their names with “stan”? 

23. Japan is farther east, west, north and south than Korea 

24. Here is fascinating map of all the places of ancient India as mentioned in Mahabharat. This map is put on display in Purana Qila, which is the ancient Indraprastha of Mahabharat. 

Thread of stunning archeological discoveries 🧵

1. A 1,500-year-old water filtration system discovered under an Iranian castle. 

2. 2700 year old skeletal remains of a yogi in padmasana Posture.

Balathal. Mewar, India 🇮🇳 

3. The Swedish warship Vasa sank in 1628 less than a mile into its maiden voyage and was recovered from the sea floor after 333 years almost completely intact. 

It is now housed at the Vasa Museum in Stockholm and is considered the world's best-preserved 17th-century ship. 

4. In 2011, a worker at a Canadian mine discovered an almost perfectly preserved 110-million-year-old nodosaur.

Scientists consider this the best-preserved dinosaur ever found, with its skin, armor, and internal organs remarkably intact. 

5. Roman Mosaic found in a vineyard near Negrar di Valpolicella, Italy 🇮🇹 

6. A 2000-year-old Roman blue glass bowl was unearthed in immaculate condition at an archaeological dig in Nijmegen in 2021. 

7. This Roman mosaic discovered in Antakya, Turkey, was so well-made that it maintained the wave effect of an earthquake without breaking the pattern. 

8. The world’s oldest wine bottle

The Speyer wine bottle, dating back to the 4th century AD, is considered the world's oldest unopened bottle of wine. It was found in 1867 when archaeologists discovered a Roman tomb near Speyer, Germany 🇩🇪 

9. In 2008, archaeologists discovered a 2000-year-old Thracian chariot with horse skeletons in Bulgaria. 

10. This 2,400 year-old skeleton mosaic discovered in Turkey says: “Be cheerful, enjoy your life” 

11. In the 1970s, archaeologists in Bulgaria unearthed a vast Copper Age necropolis from the 5th millennium BCE. Inside burial 43 they found the remains of a high status male with more gold than it was found in the entire rest of the world in that period 

12. 23,000-year-old human footprints uncovered in New Mexico’s White Sands National Park are one of ARCHAEOLOGY’s Top 10 Discoveries of 2021. 

13. Sarcophagus from tombs of Yuya and Thuya, discovered in 1905 

14. The Antikythera Mechanism, discovered in a 2,000-year-old shipwreck in 1901, is known as history's first analogue computer.

It predicted astronomical positions and eclipses, puzzling researchers about its origin and the millennium-long disappearance of the technology. 

15. Several years ago, team of archaeologists excavating megalithic tomb of Montelirio tholos (Spain) found a 5000 year old dagger (8.5 in.long) formed from rock crystal.
It was found along with 10 arrowheads, 4 blades and core for making weapons, all of which were rock crystal. 

16. In 2021, archaeologists unearthed the statue head of Dionysus, the Greek god of wine, during excavations in the ancient city of Aizanoi, Turkey. 

17. While hiking in the Ötztal Valley in the Alps (1991), German hikers stumbled upon a remarkably preserved mummy, later named Ötzi, which had been encased in ice for over 5,300 years 

18. In 2015, the world's only intact Basilosaurus fossil, a large prehistoric whale dating back 40 million years, was discovered in Wadi El Hitan, Egypt 🇪🇬. 

The 4,000-year-old skeletons of a mother shielding her child during a massive earthquake that struck China around 2000 BC, triggering floods in what is sometimes called "China’s Pompeii." These remains are now located at the Lajia Ruins Museum in northwest China 🇨🇳 

20. Drainage system of Indus Valley civilisation at Lothal Gujarat, India. This drainage system and pipes date back to 2500BC. 