Italian university students hung an effigy of Elon Musk upside down at the site where fascist dictator Benito Mussolini's body was desecrated in 1945.
  • hmonkey@lemy.lolEnglish
    85·
    1 天前

    My great grandfather’s buddy took the Mussolini corpse photos while they walked through and sold them to Time magazine, it’s sort of a 6 degrees of separation thing but still a fun fact

    • FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.worldEnglish
      23·
      15 小时前

      My grandfather didn’t get any close-ups with historic fascists, but he did shoot two Nazi planes out of the sky.

      And then my mom and dad voted Trump.

      • in4apenny@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        5·
        4 小时前

        Clearly they haven’t seen famous antifa media like ‘Saving Private Ryan’, ‘Band of Brothers’, or ‘Come and See’ due to those flims being too radical.

    • lolrightythen@lemmy.worldEnglish
      7·
      19 小时前

      I’m down! Apparently I’m one of 2 million descendants of john howland.

      Didn’t learn of this until I stopped being an arborist.

      These things are fun and worth hearing about.

      • lolrightythen@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        19 小时前

        My understanding is that john fell off the mayflower and caught a rope, which saved him. Sounds like catching that rope wasn’t likely