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plus Revolutionary facts [View this email in your browser]( More Revolutionary War People Died On New York Prison Ships Than In Battle If you try tallying up every war in which America participated, in order of how many Americans died in combat, you will wind up with ... a lot of figures that you'll have trouble fairly comparing. Only around 2,000 Americans died in the War in Afghanistan, for example, and yet many more people died in total and it was America's longest war. Around 50,000 died in combat in Vietnam, totally dwarfing all wars since, combined, many times over. But go further back, and around 200,000 died in the Civil War—if we're just talking about combat. Factor in everyone who died thanks to disease, and the figure rises to three times that. During the Revolutionary War, around 4,500 Americans died in combat. That's still quite a lot (the entire American population numbered less than 3 million at the time). And yet over 11,000 additional Americans died because the British took them prisoner and kept them in ships in New York's East River. Yes—well over twice as many Americans died in these ships than in every battle combined. Years before international laws dictated how everyone must treat prisoners of war, getting locked up in a British ship meant all but certain doom. Every day, the British dumped new corpses into the river, and then scooped out that salty corpse water to make broth to serve to the prisoners. The prisoners were naked—by choice, since that slightly postponed their death by heat. Lamps didn't stay lit, and dead bodies would sometimes lie unnoticed for ten days. Bodies, once chucked off the ship, kept washing ashore, where people piled them into barrows then dumped them in mass graves. Technically, the imprisoned men didn't have to stay in the ships. The British gave them the choice of simply switching sides and fighting for England. Most of the imprisoned weren't even members of the Continental Army or Navy but were privateers. Still, almost all of them chose to stay loyal to America and die. For more Revolutionary facts, check out: - [5 Myths About the Revolutionary War Everyone Believes]( - ["Tyranny" Under The Crown Would Have Meant Freedom For The Slaves]( - [The Colonists Blundered Britain into the French and Indian War]( Top image: [Edward Bookhout]( Daily Digest [Scrubs: 15 Highlights Of Turk And JD’s Bromance]( By JD Roberson / July 05th, 2022 [15 Science Facts That Fired Up Our Bunsen Burners]( By JhallComics / July 05th, 2022 [Guy Disappears After His Job Accidentally Pays Him 300 Months' Salary]( By Eli Yudin / July 05th, 2022 ['Red Dead Redemption' And 'GTA IV' Remasters Once Existed But Are Now Dead]( By Tiago Svn / July 05th, 2022 [Saturday Night Live: 14 Comedians Who Somehow Still Haven’t Hosted]( By JD Roberson / July 05th, 2022 [READ MORE]( [From the Insights Blog]( Dall-E Minis Could Be A Slam Dunk For Brands If you’ve been on Twitter in the last four to five days, you’ve likely seen a plethora of [DALL-E mini]( images, the six-photo grid created by an open-source AI program that can transmute human language descriptions into their near-exact corresponding images. Twitter Gimmick Account Weird Dall-E Generations has capitalized on the viral sensation, gaining 500k followers in less than a week on an account that shares various user submitted Dall-E minis. As Twitter obsessed over this limitless meme generator and site traffic to Weird Dall-E Generations increased, we discovered something interesting. [Read it here](. [Vibe Check](#Vibe Check) []Vibe Check is an analysis of top trending entries on our website, KnowYourMeme.com. We used data you can’t find anywhere else to show you what’s popping up this week. This gives brands insight into how the internet’s conversation is evolving week to week and what they should be aware of. In last week’s Vibe Check we saw: - [Spotify Pie Chart]( refers to a third-party website that uses a Spotify user's listening history to show them their preferred artists and music preferences via a pie chart graphic. It's similar to the annual Spotify Wrapped that is officially headed by the company. The pie chart tool was released via Github in June 2022 by a UCLA student named Darren Huang. It generated buzz on social media, most notably on Twitter, in the following days as people shared their charts online. - Takeaway: Stay up to date on emerging trends by monitoring discussion-based platforms like Twitter to maintain an understanding of the freshest meme marketing opportunities - [DALL-E mini]( is an AI system that can create images from a description in natural language, which is a knock-off, less advanced but openly available version of DALL-E by OpenAI. The project went viral on Twitter in early June 2022 as it was used to generate humorous images, such as characters in unusual settings or characters eating various foods. - Takeaway: User reception to DALL-E mini has favored brand memes thus far, the momentum is hot but the clock is ticking. - [Zoomerification]( or Zoomerfy is a meme trend that involves editing images of people and characters by giving them a Zoomer Perm or other stereotypical Gen Z haircut and humorously editing their dialogue so that it includes a large number of Gen Z slang words and expressions, such as "deadass," "fr fr," "bussin" and "no cap." First popularized on 4chan in April 2022, the format achieved virality in early June that year. - Takeaway: New slang emerges and it is important to understand its full context before misappropriating it unwisely. [Further Reading](#further reading) - [] Amazon's show The Boys joined the Morbius conversation after the movie's re-release. ([Twitter]( - Multiverse Memes from the Astraverse: The trailer for Ayan Mukerji's 'Brahmastra' starring Alia Bhatt and Ranbir Kapoor dropped today and MCU fans have been quick to meme their favorite moments. ([The Quint World]( - ​​The Flash's Ezra Miller Reacts to Allegations Against Them By Posting Memes: Miller's been embroiled in public controversy for months but has not been located by the court. The actor shared a series of memes on his Instagram including one that read "you cannot touch me, I am in another universe." ([The Direct]( - Goodbye, Internet Explorer: Internet Explorer, the Microsoft web browser that introduced so many to the wonders of the World Wide Web over the last 27 years, will no longer work after June 15th, according to an announcement by Microsoft. ([Know Your Meme]( - AI Generated Greentexts: These story memes are a form of personal anecdotes and fiction popular on 4chan and other imageboards, that are generated by the GPT-3 language model or other AI software rather than written by humans. ([Know Your Meme]( ​ - ARMY shares memes in reaction to BTS Hiatus Announcement: After K-Pop supergroup BTS confirmed an extended hiatus yesterday, fans were quick to share reaction gifs and memes. ([HITC]( Want more further reading? Follow us on [LinkedIn]( and [Twitter]( [fb]( [tw]( [yt]( [Logomark_DIGITAL_Red_50X50-px] [insta png]( [tiktok png]( [ARTICLES]( | [PICTOFACTS]( | [Videos]( Literally media Ltd. 190 West St, Suite 17B, Brooklyn NY 11222 COPYRIGHT © 2005-2021 Cracked is published by Literally media Ltd. Want to change how you receive these emails? You can [update your preferences]( or [unsubscribe from this list](. ONE CRACKED FACT | [View in browser]( Copyright © 2022 Literally Media, All rights reserved. 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