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Anna is a freelance writer with far too much time on her hands. When she&#8217;s not writing about memes and internet slang, she can be found running TTRPGs online.

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Left: Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, Washington DC 2024. Right: President Trump speaks at the Invest America Roundtable in the State Dining Room of the White House announcing the “Trump Account” plan to invest $1,000 for each newborn. Tweet overlay reading "When a history museum rewrites history to appease the president, it stops being a museum and starts being state propaganda. Straight-up Orwellian."

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Reddit’s r/AskHistorians goes all-in on the ‘Back to the Future III’ train scene

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Turns out that crazy archery video was highly inaccurate

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Everything you know about archery is a lie—and this dude can prove it

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