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
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    12 hours ago

    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
      4·
      3 hours ago

      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.

    • lolrightythen@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      7 hours ago

      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·
        7 hours ago

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