How a Monumental Fire Held Back Humanity by 1,000 Years

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[Jay_]

"the mighty DOUBLE erection"
his voice made it a thousand times better

[firenationfiles]

*Everything changed when the Fire Nation attacked.*

[Floridablaze]

The saddest “don’t put all your eggs in one basket” story.

[desiv]

Plot twist: When they finally found the list of titles at the Library of Alexendria, they discovered 90% of the books were romance novels and teen vampire series...

[Revenant-oqts]

Who else knew this was gonna be about the Library of Alexandria from the title alone?

[davidwondercheck]

Ironically, the only bit of knowledge the Library of Alexandria apparently didn't contain was how to build a fire-proof library.

[Trianshzxc]

"Mighty double errection", I cannot be the only one who laughed when he said that.

[sedarnesbit]

Another story that always makes me cringe is when I found out that the Spanish stole all the gold plates and books from the Aztecs, handed them over to the Catholic church, and then the priests MELTED them down and destroyed all that valuable information and genealogy because obviously "every book that's not the bible is evil and must be destroyed" Makes me want to cry when I think about what was lost.

[DarksteelHeart]

"as a society, we must NEVER let another book burn...
Unless it's Fifty Shades of Grey"
-Thoughty2 /agree

[SmokinJoe]

“America managed 2 more erections..and held on to it for an impressive 67 years!” 😂😂

[matthewsermons]

My favorite answer to the question: "If you could go back in time, what would you change?"
....Bring a printing press to the Library of Alexandria...

[djg]

Moral of the story: have you backed up your computer today?

[Plate_Productions]

so youtube could have been launched in 1, 005

[Zman]

unfortunately the ancient Greek didn't know the proverb "don't put all your scrolls in one library" :/

[ByTheSpirit]

You know the scary thing about 12:40 is today's society is leaning heavily in this direction. Destroy thoughts and ideas that aren't in agreement with certain elements, and if they are incorporate them still. Humanity really does never learn a damn thing about itself or it's history

[hghg]

Who would win?
Billions of dollars spent on space technology
Or
One ancient stick boi

[tenani]

Everyone: How big is the earth?


Eratosthenes: Hold this stick of mine!

[MargaritaOnTheRox]

I was wondering if all the "erections" were unintended until "Compensation Tower." 😂🤣😂🤣

[sherifitzgerald]

The loss of the Library of Alexandria has always deeply bothered me. I would love to have seen it. 700, 000 scrolls up in smoke...tragic.

[PyroMancerk]

That's not the lesson to be learned. The Lesson is don't store all your books in one Library.