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harthram
Civil war vets were still alive during WWII
GriffithCantelope
The pyramids of Egypt and the Stone Henge are the same age
Bazelbait11
I think Newgrange is older, was built in 3200 bc
Medionsinger
The UK and US versions of the comic book character Dennis the Menace debuted on the exact same day, March 12th, 1951. They are not related.
somethingdark
The Nintendo 64 predates wacky waving inflatable arm-flailing tube men by about a month
GrimFinn
Confucius died 9 years before Socrates was born. The fax machine was invented before the telephone.
magnusalban
The Spaniards opened the first inn in Santa Fe 11 years before the pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock.
AnythingMuchShorter
Your mom was born two decades before the hoe was invented, so they referred to her as a ploughshare before that.
GravyEducation
I know about the guillotine one because there were protests about it. Also as my obvious contribution, Picasso died in 1973
kendoddsdadsdogsdead
I was born closer to the invention of powered flight than today.I’m 60 today
kendoddsdadsdogsdead
Probably got that wrong as I’m old
AMM0FR3AK
genericimguruser2
Japan's final soldier to surrender in WW2 did so the same year Richard Nixon resigned the Presidency.
AmadeusDesperadO
PackedCatMeowingPowerDensity
Honestly short-term history is also amazing. For a bio presentation I had to use a book from 1970 in 1999. Just four years later I could
PackedCatMeowingPowerDensity
reliably get onto Wikipedia and get fragmented, yet much better info on Wikipedia.
imightsayhello
The last sword duel in France took place in 1967. It was between two parliament members.
MaadMaanMaatt
Who won?
HandoB4Javert
gold members?
sf111
DIINKELBERG
Coca Cola was founded BEFORE domestic used refrigerators.
Snooj
Really old things have been around even longer than things almost but not quite so old.
Hooooooo
Same way that I'm so strong I can lift literally anything there is to lift so long as it isn't too heavy!
PuruseeTheShakingCat
OP, the Great Pyramid of Giza was built a thousand years before the earliest date the Olmec heads were thought to be built.
bvines10389
Just out of curiosity, when were the Olmec heads created?
NoVirtueInDestruction
Around 900 BCE
GrimFinn
Thr first electric car was built before the chain-drive bicycle was invented.
Wallrat
Cleopatra was born closer in time to the iPhone than the building of the pyramids
aThingWithTheStufAndTheJunk
And she was a white lady from Europe.
crateo
Mediterranean lady from egypt. Not many racial differences between Greeks and Egyptians.
Justtakealookatthis
Less time passed between modern chicken evolving and T-Rex being alive, than betweenT-Rex and Stegosaurs.
Carl99
The Pyramids where older to Jesus than Jesus is old to us.
Muunk
Imgur's servers were built during the Industrial Revolution.
PatternsinChaos
@OP's momma fell the same year dinosaurs went extinct
SlightlyDodgy
I'd believe that were true if the app worked better. I've barely used it recently it's so buggy. The Industrial revolution made good stuff.
somethingstupidandclever
Yes yes. We all love toxic waste and child labor.
SlightlyDodgy
True, but we are not much better now. We are doing things to mitigate it, but still not learning because greed is the driver for everything.
Bonsaipanda
BearUnhinged
Richy1120
You can't trick me, They would work better if that were true.
Yizelin
Still powered by the same rat is all
nyarlathotep777
They were smashed up by the Luddites
xDEIx
We are in an industrial revolution right now.
SpoilsburyToastMan
Yeah but this one has a different meaning
SushiJaguar
Fourth one, isn't it? Or the fifth?
victell
The ocean used to be green, then turned red.
ActionJohnnie
Einstein was born the same year that everyone clapped.
madeejit
I laughed so hard a little clap came out.
ThePastmaster
I fucking hate that meme. Not sure why.
xmaneds
... and that little baby . . . . . grew up to be Albert Einstein
skogkatt
The year I got married was, coincidentally, the last year that I got a blowjob.
JrHunting
Damn man, F
Patron03041
lmao, rip
thelegendofthetwistednavigator
Olmec civilisation (and the heads) from 1500 BC. Egypt was on its 18th Dynasty, 6th dynastic period and all the pyramids were already old
thelegendofthetwistednavigator
Sphinx might be waaay older than that (possibly was refurbed from a 10k+ year old statue - there's long term water weathering on it)
marbiter
MLK and Ann Frank were born in the same year.
BartenderSean
43 lifetimes since 1000 BC (ISH). We Smol bro. But also BIG BIG.
Lulabel73
And Barbara walters
GravyEducation
I misheard NPR the other day while driving, thought they were saying MLK's 63rd birthday. Spent the rest of the drive crunching the number
ValhallaAwaits
And Betty White was born 7 years before that.
SimplyDifficult91
Betty White (99) passed the same year as DMX (50) which makes them 149, the same year Susan B Anthony became the 1st woman to vote in USA
Cyandvai
Betty White was born before pre-sliced bread was available.
sfbiker
I could have improved my college GPA if I had just gone to Harvard in the first few years of its existence, Calc killed my GPA.
destinychopsticks
Not quite what you asked for, but Cleopatra lived closer to today than she did to the time the great pyramids were built.
destinychopsticks
Also, the T. rex lived closer in history to humans than to the stegosaurus.
IDeltic
That's one of my two go-to weird timeline facts, other being the Oxford University one in the post.
DigiT00l
The US was 3 people old last I checked, not sure if it still is
IThinkALot
??
Beepity
Future-president John Tyler was born 1790 (one year after Washington was sworn in) and at least as of December 2021 has living grandchildren
Bazelbait11
Yeah my old school was older than America by a solid 50 years or so
GrimFinn
Marco Polo was traveling at the same time the Moai statues on Easter Island were being built
UserSubHunterOfIndeterminateGender
The Victorian Era, the American Old West, and the Japanese Meiji Restoration overlap. A cowboy, a samurai and Queen Victoria could have met
anglarite
ThePastmaster
The samurai culture was destroyed at Shiroyama in 1877. The fax machine was invented in 1843. Queen Victoria died in 1901.
Ghlargh
The wild west era was still ongoing in parts of the US when the first of the wild west movies were being filmed.
GravyEducation
I find America/Japan weirdly overlap in a lot of places. To your point, Westerns as a genre are basically identical in format to any 1/
eetsumkaus
The US and modern Japan are some of the youngest developed nations , it makes a lot of sense.
GravyEducation
In your opinion, do you think the disconnect happens because of America's colonial roots? Because we do seem to mirror tech and culture now
eetsumkaus
well the latter is because America and Japan have been close allies post WWII AND they are the two biggest economies in the developed world
GravyEducation
Japanese-produced samurai film. So much so that they inspired each other to produce homages
CarpeMofo
There are also remakes of Japanese films as Westerns like Seven Samurai/The Magnificent Seven.
DSREX
This is my favorite fact, and considering how romanticized each of the 3 eras are the fact that they only really cross up in Jacky Chan
anglarite
DSREX
Shanghai Noon and Shanghai Knights. Impearl Chinese but very close really.
DSREX
Movies is amazing.
eetsumkaus
do people not realize this? Perry literally sailed into Tokyo Harbor with steam warships
doesntmatter
If they had steam ships why did they sail? Check mate aithests
eetsumkaus
funny that, because at the time the ships looked like this
UserSubHunterOfIndeterminateGender
Yeah, in the US you henerally learn about them in a way that doesn't explicitly connect them. Because you're taught to standardized tests...
UserSubHunterOfIndeterminateGender
Not for actual ability to utilize information, most people don't make the connection. It's pretty sad how badly they've been failed.
eetsumkaus
really? I kinda feel like I learned them all at the same time because all of them were relevant to imperialism
kitenkatt
Betty white is older than sliced bread
InDogsWeThrust
*was
AlexanderElcazorro
Last use of the guillotine so far...
NZSheeps
The way things are going, it could be making a comeback soon
AlexanderElcazorro
I don't know, the last few attempts by Disney were pretty bad. Mandolorian and Rogue One were okay though...
bonetonelord
But probably not in official use by the French government, which is what the post refers to.
TwoDogsFucking
Sharks have been around longer than trees.
marthafarquar
.....older than the trees, younger than the mountains, growin' like a breeze…
ThePastmaster
Trees are 295 million years older than grass.
Mack1986
And trees existed for millions of years before the microbes that break them down
kiwibogan
And that's why we've got coal. Trees just piled up, or they burnt in massive Forrest fires
ThanatosElNyx
Burn Forrest! Burn!
ATerribleArtist
Burn butcher burn! For whom do you yearn(?)
jsims281
Sharks have been around longer than Saturn's rings
ignimbrite
There are parts of Australia, South Africa, and Canada that are over 4 billion years old.
discitus
The Canadian shield is fascinating. Billions of years ago there were mountains taller than Everest. You wouldn't know now - it's all hills.
ignimbrite
The Pilbara and Yilgarn cratons in Australia are so old they're effectively flat and we think they represent some of the earth's first crust
randomwalrus
The Appalachian Mountains are older than dinosaurs. Older than bones. Older than limestone. Older than oceans.
erroniousmaximus
Aren’t the North American alphs and the Swiss alps the same chain, just broken up due to the fact they’re older than the Atlantic?
erroniousmaximus
I was part right and part wrong. They cross the Atlantic, but their tail(head?) end are in Scotland, not anywhere near Switzerland.
randomwalrus
Aye, likely date from Pangaea, or earlier.
AtypicalMammal
Country roads take me home
GrumpyOldMillennial
Silly question but the appalachians have all the coal. Isn't coal a product of plants and animals? Or am I not remembering my geology right?
Zanura
They first formed in the Ordovician, but they didn't just form all at once and then stop. There was multiple orogenies over 200 mil years.
Zanura
That plus stuff getting deposited around/on them all that time and LOTS of erosion, and you get Carboniferous coal in Ordovician mountains.
randomwalrus
Possibly surface sediment over the millions of years they have existed. Not really sure, to be honest. Was just parroting something I read.
PectorialMuscles
Most coal is not animals. Most is actually plankton and such microorganisms. Plants are next in line, and animals are there, but very little
Onsvaltti
There were giant mushrooms before trees, and thanks to their fungal root system, we have trees and greenery? ? If I'm not totally wrong.
Justtakealookatthis
PBS Eons has a video on them! https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-G64DagHuOg&t=90s
Onsvaltti
That's where I remembered it from, but wasn't sure if I got my facts right ?
GrumpyOldMillennial
The largest single living thing is a fungus IIRC. After that it's actually a many acre birch tree. (Looks like a forest but it's all 1 tree)
Nalianna
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pando_(tree)
MrFancyPanzer
My gg uncle lived through the end of the wild west, the victorian era, the invention of the car, the ottoman empire and the moon landing.
therealpopkiller
My grandfather was born before MGM existed and lived to see Twitter
MrFancyPanzer
My grandmother was born in 1920 as a direct result of the Spanish flu, died in early 2019 just before the start of the next great pandemic.
cardinal29
When my mom was little, you paid the ice man a nickel for the block of ice that went in an ice box. She still calls the fridge an ice box
cardinal29
irvingb01
World's least trustworthy iceman.
cardinal29
He has a certain charm
Astramancer
My great grandpa moved to california in a covered wagon. And watched the Moon Landing on TV.
aThingWithTheStufAndTheJunk
My great-grandmother ran a brothel in the wild west.
alwaysupvotefuturama
Does that make you a.. great grandson of a whore?
zcon
madam. not whore
kingkongkeom
Maybe she liked to help out on busy days, you dont know how popular that place was.
aThingWithTheStufAndTheJunk
But also I'm adopted so, either way, no.
aThingWithTheStufAndTheJunk
Ran one, not worked in one.