Twitter Users Describe Their Favorite Weird Historical Perspectives

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Eric Lund
Nov 19, 2021 2:00 PM EST

As time steady lurches forward, it's a good idea to look back and think about where we've been. Some things that we think of as recent are startlingly far away, while other things are curiously linked. And then you're once again reminded of how long ago the pyramids were built and you feel lost again. Pretty cool. It's mind-blowing, like this tumblr thread on how the Appalachians are older than most things.

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    Font - Zack Budryk @BudrykZack What bit of historical perspective gives you an existential crisis? Mine is that Harriet Tubman was born in Thomas Jefferson's lifetime and died in Reagan's.
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    Font - Zack Budryk @BudrykZack · Nov 9 Replying to @BudrykZack Bonus: France conducted its last state guillotining the year "Star Wars" was released 69 27 917 14.9K Zack Budryk @BudrykZack · Nov 10 ... Coming back to this to add that Tupac's debut was longer ago than the entirety of his lifespan
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    Font - Ben Madeska @BenMadeska · Nov 9 Replying to @BudrykZack That Tyrannosaurus Rex lived closer to humans than the Stegosaurus
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    Font - howdy-doody denim occultist @mutual_cas... · Nov 9 Replying to @BudrykZack oldie but a goodie: cleopatra lived closer to the apollo 11 moon landings than to the construction of the pyramids of giza
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    Font - Jim Hill @jaschrhill · Nov 9 ... Hal Roach entertained in his home both Mark Twain and Michael Jackson
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    Organism - i guess! $ @seefloor · Nov 9 Replying to @BudrykZack Anne Frank and MLK were born the same year O 25 27 174 5K Matt @Matthewlgnatius · Nov 9 And Betty WWhite was born seven years earlier. 21 27 88 ♡ 5.2K
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    Font - Chad Walters @ChadWalters · Nov 9 ... Replying to @BudrykZack The University of Oxford is older than the Inca Empire. So much older that you can fit the entirety of the history of the US from Declaration of Independence to present with room to spare.
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    Font - State Song Threader @sayer_of_stuff · Nov 10 ... Speaking of Universities, for the first few years after Harvard was founded, it didn't teach calculus because calculus hadn't been invented yet.
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    Font - luke , but on wheels @lukeonwheels · Nov 9 Replying to @BudrykZack ... Woolly mammoths were still around when the Great Pyramid was built
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    Font - Paul Meisel @PaulMeisel · Nov 10 Replying to @BudrykZack My dad joined the Army Air Corps when his unit was flying biplanes and retired when they were flying supersonic fighter jets.
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    Font - Jenny @JReeths · Nov 10 Replying to @BudrykZack The Wright brothers' first flight was only 66 years before the moon landing.
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    Font - Thunderhawk @thun_derhawk · Nov 10 Replying to @BudrykZack The one where there was a 22 time period for a samurai to have sent a fax to Abraham Lincoln really gets me 11 27 61 1.9K dick genital E @dick_genital · Nov 10 On a similar note, Dracula was written in 1897. Due to ... the year it takes place, Count Dracula could've theoretically worn Levi's jeans, consumed coca-cola, and owned a Nintendo product.
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    Font - An American Trans Werewolf in B... Nov 11 ... Replying to @BudrykZack Sharks have been around for 450 million years. Cockroaches have been around for 280 million years. Birds have been around for 100 million years. Humans have been around for only 300 thousand years. We're so new.
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    Font - Andrew Levine @andrewlevine · Nov 10 Replying to @BudrykZack Lauren Bacall was married to/costarred with Humphrey Bogart (born 1899) and also was in the same episode of Family Guy as Ariana Grande
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    Font - Tiffany Elliott (she/her) E .. · Nov 10 ... Replying to @BudrykZack Jimmy Carter was the first president born in a hospital.
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    Font - Armen Devejian @daddykool · Nov 10 ... Replying to @BudrykZack I used to drive the church van on Sundays for our senior members who did not drive. My "co-pilot" was a retired barber who was born in 1891 & lived when I realized that when Pearl Harbor was bombed in 1941, he was already to be 105. It was 50 and too old to enlist.
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    Font - Matt McDaniel @themattmcd · Nov 10 ... Replying to @BudrykZack The original Star Wars is as old now as the original King Kong was when Star Wars was released.
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    Font - EW Greg Woods @diygreg · Nov 10 Replying to @BudrykZack Betty White was the oldest Golden Girl and the only one still alive. She is older than sliced bread
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    Rectangle - Shannon Wade @13ShannonWade · Nov 10 Today I saw an ad for the 45th anniversary of Rocky.
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    Font - Sad Phase Emoji @Letterznumbers · Nov 10 Replying to @BudrykZack I know this isn't as astounding as some other comments but I find it so strange that John Lennon has been dead longer than he was alive
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    Smile - Gayer Than Thou Replying to @BudrykZack ( · Nov 10 Queen Elizabeth II has been Queen of England for more than a quarter of the total time the United States has existed.
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    Organism - Jeff Brown @jbrown_tc · Nov 1O Replying to @BudrykZack Not historical but I feel like these time perspective worm holes should include the always-fun Back to the Future perspective: If Back to the Future was released today in 2021, Marty would go back in time to see his parents in high school in 1991.
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    Product - Bexistential Dread @grayandrain... · Nov 10 Replying to @BudrykZack Okay so The samurai were officially abolished as a caste in Japanese society during the Meiji Restoration in 1867 The first ever fax machine, the "printing telegraph", was invented in 1843 And Abraham Lincoln was famously assassinated at Ford's Theatre in 1865 Which means There was a 22 year window in which a samurai could have sent a fax to Abraham Lincoln
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    Font - RockanARoll Wolf @Titi_Suru · Nov 10 ... Replying to @BudrykZack Portuguese filmmaker Manoel de Oliveira died in 2015 at the age of 106. His first film was silent and his last was shot on digital video.
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    Plant - DB @pippers132 · Nov 11 ... Replying to @BudrykZack and @MalcolmNance This olive tree is over two thousand years old.
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