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London Underground used to be transportation that also takes you to see public hangings.
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1967, NASA was already exploring space. Meanwhile, scientists finally agreed on tectonic plates.
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The Oregon trail was first trodden by wagon in 1843, the year when fax machine was invented.
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Swiss women were granted their rights to vote during the year US drove a buggy on the moon in 1971.
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The last person on death row for the guillotine in France died when Star Wars came out in 1977.
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Calculus was actually invented years after Harvard University was established
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Mother Teresa died 5 days after Princess Diana died on August 31, 1997.
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Barak Obama won the election the year the last widow of a civil war veteran passed away.
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Ecstasy was made the year the Titanic sank in 1912.
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This Bristlecone Pine is the oldest tree alive and was 1,000 years old when Wooly Mammoth died out.
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Anne Frank was the same age as Martin Luther King (1929).
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Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows Was Published In The Summer Of 2007. The Same Summer First iPhone Model Was Released
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George Washington doesn’t know the existence of dinosaur as he died in 1799, 25 years before the first fossil was found.
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Oxford University is hundreds of years older than The Aztec Empire (1428)
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This tortoise is Harriet who passed away back in 2016. It’s also the only tortoise who’s seen Charles Darwin in person.
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Marilyn Monroe and Queen Elizabeth are shaking hands here during a movie premiere in London, 1956. They were both 30 then.
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America’s 10th President, John Tyler (1970) has two grandsons who are still alive today, in 2019.
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Eiffel Tower Was Inaugurated In 1889 For The World’s Fair, Which Was The Same Year Van Gogh’s ‘Starry Night’ Was Painted
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