19 Staggering Facts About Our Times

Steven_Seagal Published 10/21/2015

Learn the amazing and fun kind of knowledge you can later use to impress your friends.

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1. Cleopatra lived closer to the building of Pizza Hut than the pyramids.
2. Every two minutes, we take as many photos as all of humanity took during the 1800s.
3. Oxford University is older than the Aztecs.
4. Will Smith is now older than Uncle Phil was at the beginning of "The Fresh Prince."
5. In the span of 66 years, we went from taking flight to landing on the moon.
6. John Tyler, America's 10th President, has two living grandchildren. He had a son, Lyon, at age 63. Lyon would have Lyon Jr. and Harrison at 71 and 75, respectively. Both are still alive today and in their 80's.
7. The first pyramids were built while the woolly mammoth was still alive.
8. The fax machine was invented the same year people were traveling the Oregon Trail.
9. France was still executing people by guillotine when Star Wars came out.
10. Betty White is older than sliced bread.
11. This is what the difference in Olympic Gold looks like 56 years apart.
12. When Warner Brothers formed, the Ottoman Empire was still alive.
13. Harvard University was founded before calculus was derived.
14. The last time the Chicago Cubs won a World Series, women were not allowed to vote.
15. Humans never fully experience the "present" - we're always living in the past.
16. There was more time between the Stegosaurus and the Tyrannosaurus Rex than between the Tyrannosaurus Rex and you.
17. If you’re over 45, the world population has doubled in your lifetime.
18. There are whales alive today who were born before Moby Dick was written.
19. If the history of Earth were compressed to a single year, modern humans would appear on December 31st at about 11:58pm.

1. Cleopatra lived closer to the building of Pizza Hut than the pyramids.
2. Every two minutes, we take as many photos as all of humanity took during the 1800s.
3. Oxford University is older than the Aztecs.
4. Will Smith is now older than Uncle Phil was at the beginning of "The Fresh Prince."
5. In the span of 66 years, we went from taking flight to landing on the moon.
6. John Tyler, America's 10th President, has two living grandchildren. He had a son, Lyon, at age 63. Lyon would have Lyon Jr. and Harrison at 71 and 75, respectively. Both are still alive today and in their 80's.
7. The first pyramids were built while the woolly mammoth was still alive.
8. The fax machine was invented the same year people were traveling the Oregon Trail.
9. France was still executing people by guillotine when Star Wars came out.
10. Betty White is older than sliced bread.
11. This is what the difference in Olympic Gold looks like 56 years apart.
12. When Warner Brothers formed, the Ottoman Empire was still alive.
13. Harvard University was founded before calculus was derived.
14. The last time the Chicago Cubs won a World Series, women were not allowed to vote.
15. Humans never fully experience the "present" - we're always living in the past.
16. There was more time between the Stegosaurus and the Tyrannosaurus Rex than between the Tyrannosaurus Rex and you.
17. If you’re over 45, the world population has doubled in your lifetime.
18. There are whales alive today who were born before Moby Dick was written.
19. If the history of Earth were compressed to a single year, modern humans would appear on December 31st at about 11:58pm.