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The Smithsonian tells it like it is. (viralwtf.com)

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[–]chrys0poeia 93 points94 points ago

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This was created by design students, I think. It's not an actual campaign by the Smithsonian.

[–]Chronolitus[S] 18 points19 points ago*

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Wow, the artist - Matt Kapler - had to edit the posters (new version) because it got noticed by the Smithsonian.

If you read this, I wish you all the best, Matt! (I hope this didn't cause any trouble)

Edit - it seems that Jenny Leigh Bee (who worked along with Matt Kepler on the ads) is the one who edited them. All the best to you too, love the art!

[–]jennyleighb 4 points5 points ago*

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Hey, thanks a lot!

[–]lessthanadam 34 points35 points ago

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It really should be, these are awesome.

[–][deleted] 7 points8 points ago

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"These"? Are there more? I need links, I really like this.

[–]Churba 16 points17 points ago

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Right here.

[–]StochasticOoze 6 points7 points ago

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The one about Teddy Roosevelt is inaccurate, although the truth arguably makes him even more of a badass.

He was actually shot before the speech, but insisted on making the speech before going to a hospital.

[–]UmberGryphon 3 points4 points ago

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As everydayfromwork posted elsewhere, the creator's source is here. There are Previous/Next buttons.

[–]Churba 4 points5 points ago*

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You thought right - in fact, the Smithsonian politely asked them to stop, and they removed the logo in favor of a Generic "Museums" logo.

[–]Exit30six 2 points3 points ago

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Advertising students. They were at The Creative Circus when they made this although they are both gainfully employed now.

[–]StochasticOoze 0 points1 point ago

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I was gonna say. There'd probably be an uproar if a federal institution created an advertisement referring to women as "chicks".

[–]blink-me -4 points-3 points ago

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You're right. And it's been posted hundreds, if not thousands of times on reddit since then. Kinda getting annoying now.

[–]ambersayamber 47 points48 points ago

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And by " got with" they mean "raped", right?

[–]st_gulik 30 points31 points ago

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No, the actual reason Genghis Khan is related to so many people is that he had several wives, BUT MORE IMPORTANTLY, All of his Children did as well, and they continued to rule the entirety of his empire (albeit broken into four parts) for hundreds of years after his death.

Long power dynasties tend to put their marks genetically on a population. Genghis Khan just happened to rule the single largest empire in history and Western history classes teach about the mongols as if they were unlettered barbarians when in fact it was the Mongols that virtually created the Renaissance in Europe, instituted some of the earliest forms of modern human rights that we all enjoy today, and were the reason that Europeans discovered the Americas. Christopher Columbus was trying to find the empire of the Mongols when he sailed West.

[–]RedAnarchist 5 points6 points ago

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It sounds like you read Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World.

Saying the Mongols virtually created the Renaissance in Europe is bit of a stretch though, even most revisionists would have a hard time defending that.

You also very much misrepresent Columbus's intentions. When the Mongols controlled most of Asia, trade between Asia and Europe was relatively easy given that the Mongols kept things stable and peaceful across their lands. When the empire fell apart, trade through the old networks became more difficult and costly. 100 years later, Columbus decided he'd find a new way to get to the Orient. So in this case, the Mongols decline influenced Columbus a century later, but he certainly wasn't looking for the Mongol Empire.

Also, the savagery of the Mongol Empire can not be disputed. That was the psychological warfare aspect of their campaigns.

Besides all this, it's also seems very much likely that the Mongols started the black death, crippling Medieval Europe just as it was entering it's peak, stagnating human progress and achievement in that part of the world for at least a century.

[–]st_gulik 0 points1 point ago

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I don't dispute a thing you said, except I would add that Roger Bacon has said that gunpowder, textiles, and foreign trade were the three things that caused the Renaissance and THOSE were all introduced to Europe via the Mongols.

[–]xo3k -4 points-3 points ago

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This is a bullshit just-so-story. The genetic marker was one researchers found in concentrations around the areas the Mongols controlled, everything else is speculation.

It is ridiculous to think that the one mutation they are tracking in modern populations was hatched in Genghis, and not any other Mongol. Much more likely is that nearly all the Mongols in the army carried this genetic mutation, and that every child fathered legitimately or illegitimately (because the mother was RAPED) by a Mongol would have this gene.

It's a pet peeve of mine that historians have sold this Johnny Appleseed tale because the truth would be too boring to write about.

[–]agnt007 -1 points0 points ago

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so much bullshit, its amazing.

[–]st_gulik 0 points1 point ago

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Not at all. Go read some history regarding the Mongols, you'll be surprised.

Here, I'll start it off for you: Google Geoffry Chaucer (of Canterbury Tales Fame) and Genghis Khan. See what he wrote about him. It wasn't until the late 1600s did the Mongols gain a bad rap especially after that Murderous Cretin Tamerlane tried to revive the Mongol Empire by killing European Christians and...the descendants of the Mongols. And I'm a died in the wool atheist, but a large percentage of the Mongols during Genghis and Monke's reigns were Christians, particularly their wives.

[–]agnt007 0 points1 point ago

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maybe, i am a wrong. idk.

[–]Chronolitus[S] 10 points11 points ago*

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Hey! It's not rape if she's wearing shoes!

Right?

Guys?

[–]panky117 -5 points-4 points ago

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Its not rape if you yell surprise, then its just surprise sex. everyone wins.

[–]ambersayamber 9 points10 points ago

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it's not rape if neither of us wants it.

[–]tyrghast 1 point2 points ago

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Genghis Khan surely was not a rapist! A fine upstanding warlord such as that? Unthinkable!

Brett Michaels, on the other hand...

[–]everydayfromwork 23 points24 points ago

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The guy who wrote these ads went to my school. Here's his website: http://cargocollective.com/mkcw

[–]dabian 20 points21 points ago

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This one made me hysterical. Thank you for this.

[–]BaconCat 4 points5 points ago

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This one made me historical.

FTFY

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[–]TrialByStone 5 points6 points ago

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Shouldn't you be doing your homework?

[–]Exit30six 1 point2 points ago

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What quarter/track are you?

[–]everydayfromwork 0 points1 point ago

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7th qtr/DE

[–]Chronolitus[S] 0 points1 point ago*

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The man's got talent. Thanks for the proper source!

[–]gjp253 1 point2 points ago

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Matt's a badass!

[–][deleted] 7 points8 points ago

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Assuming world population is 7 billion then 35 million people are related to him.

[–]ex_ample -1 points0 points ago

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Assuming the poster was correct, which it's not. The 0.5% is Y chromosome decent. If you require Y chromosome decent in order to be a 'related' to him, then that means 0% of women are 'related' to him and 1% of men are.

But clearly that's not correct.

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[–]DiamondAge 6 points7 points ago

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derp

[–]Mattxbc 1 point2 points ago

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according to Google It's 35 million. I think you may have missed the decimal point the first time you read the poster, i did too.

[–]MagnusTheGreat 0 points1 point ago

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damn decimals...

[–]ex_ample 10 points11 points ago

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No no no, This stat is wrong and it drives me nuts every time I see it. there is a 0.5% chance that you are a direct patrilinial descendant of his

That is, you are a man, who's father's father's father's ... father's father was Genghis Khan.

The reality is, almost every human is related to Khan if you include mothers.

The issue is the Y chromosome. Something like 0.5% of men have Khan's Y chromosome. But if your mother's father's has his Y chromosome, then you won't. Are you still related to him? Obviously.

This inaccurate stat keeps getting repeated. It's driving me nuts.

[–]kcyakiyaki 2 points3 points ago

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Radio Lab Explains this pretty well http://www.radiolab.org/2007/sep/10/genghis-khan/

over 16 million men in Central Asia are related to genghis khan

[–]combat_ninja 0 points1 point ago

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You beat me to the punch.

[–]ex_ample 0 points1 point ago

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Does it really make sense to say that zero women are related to him though?

If you only look at the Y chromosome, you are only looking at people who's father's father's father's ... father's father was Ghengis Khan.

If you look at people who either had women in that chain or are women, then it's probably almost everyone.

[–]kcyakiyaki -1 points0 points ago

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Sure, there are probably lots of women as well, but the thing is that they can only track that y chromosome mutation. They are not completely sure it is genghis khan unless they find his dna and check his y chromosome for that mutation. he is just to most likely person in the period of time to have that many kids.

[–]ex_ample 0 points1 point ago

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Right, but the point is that more then 0.5% are 'related' to Genghis Khan. And the 0.5% figure is wrong.

[–]thesleepingdog 1 point2 points ago

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Top notch

[–]darklooshkin 1 point2 points ago

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Then again, when Genghis Khan did his famous "hello, this is what god bitch-slapping you should feel like" tour, he liked the locals so much he decided to keep them for himself...

[–]sunamumaya 1 point2 points ago

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"Historically Hardcore". From now on I'm using "historical" instead of "epic". Like, "man, that was historical!"

[–]NaraNero 1 point2 points ago

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dad?

[–]EastboundandDownvote 1 point2 points ago

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There's a lot of theories on how Genghis Khan died, this one is my favorite:

Later Mongol chronicles connect Genghis' death with a Tangut princess taken as war booty. One chronicle from the early 17th century even relates that the princess hid a small pair of pliers inside her vagina, and hurt the Great Khan so badly that he died.

/Wikipedia

[–]bldkis 0 points1 point ago

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FUCKING OUCH

[–]tennantsmith 0 points1 point ago

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Correct

[–]That_guy137 0 points1 point ago

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Is this a truth fact?

[–]Deurmat 1 point2 points ago

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yes

[–]IIoWoII 0 points1 point ago

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related!= descended

[–]Deurmat 0 points1 point ago

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Read the books from Conn Iggulden about great Kahn, trust me you will not put them down once you start with them.

[–]Geekv2 0 points1 point ago

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oh crap... I'm part Mongolian... does this mean I'm a Hun?

[–]ew73 0 points1 point ago

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All of Canada is related to Khan!

[–]donwilson 0 points1 point ago

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2 months vs an entire lifetime.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point ago

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The 5% claim... is that assuming everyone has an equal probability? Cause it seems like Chinese would have a much higher probability of being related than a white/black person.

[–]Mattxbc 3 points4 points ago

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0.5%. Poster hides the decimal well.

[–]rocketsurgery -1 points0 points ago

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Yes, those 0.5% are almost entirely Chinese.

[–]niczar -1 points0 points ago

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Well most of them he raped, but hey.

[–]whoami9 -3 points-2 points ago

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Yeah, if "got with" = raped.

[–]zero_iq -2 points-1 points ago*

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Surely everybody's related to everybody else? .5% chance of being a descendant, maybe.

[–]AtTheKevIn -2 points-1 points ago

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