19 Staggering Facts About Our Times
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Published
10/21/2015
Learn the amazing and fun kind of knowledge you can later use to impress your friends.
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Cleopatra lived closer to the building of Pizza Hut than the pyramids. -
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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.
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