21 Facts About Historical Dates That Will Make Your Head Spin

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    Landmark - [-] Mastablast3r 8451 points 1 day ago At the height of the aztec empire, oxford university was 300 years old. Also at the time the pyramids were built one could still find woolly mamoths walking the earth. Harvard university didnt offer classes in calculus until a decade after its founding because calculus had yet to be discovered. When microsoft was founded, spain was still ruled by a fascist dictatorship. permalink source embed save-RESS hide child comments
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    Sculpture - [- Watty 13 7134 points 23 hours ago A well travelled man could have met Socrates, Confucius and Buddha. permalink source embed save-RES hide child comments
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    Guillotine - [-] keltic_warrior12 1256 points 1 day ago France were still using the guillotine when the first Star Wars came out permalink source embed save-RES hide child comments HILDEBRAD
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    Landmark - [-] slytrombone 5591 points 1 day ago Oxford University is older than Machu Picchu, and it's not even close. permalink source embed save-RES hide child comments
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    History - [ Vulcan Jedi 6265 points 23 hours ago J. R.R Tolkien, Otto Frank (The father of Anne Frank), and Adolf Hitler where all present as foot soldiers at the battle of the Somme. permalink source embed save-RES hide child comments
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    Cartoon - l Seldfein 2501 points 1 day ago Super Mario Kart was released closer to the moon landing than the present. permalink source embed save-RES hide child comments
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    Portrait - 11000 points 1 day ago KingSalmonOnTv The modern day battery was invented one year after George Washington died. permalink source embed save-RES hide child comments
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    Human - [ wowbagger30 2593 points 1 day ago Cleopatra lived closer in time to the moon landing than the construction of the pyramids permalink source embed save-RES hide child comments
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    Face - 2926 points 1 day ago (last edited 15 hours ago) [-] Farmallenthusiast Orville Wright and Neil Armstrong were both alive at the same time. (Just for eight years, but still!) Edit, Flumpa84 kindly points out that they actually co-existed for seventeen years permalink source embed save-RES hide child comments
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    Text - 6345 points 1 day ago [-] Haus42 The Ottoman Empire collapsed the same year that: Betty White & Stan Lee were born; the US commissioned its first aircraft carrier; insulin was first used to control diabetes; and 8 years before Pluto was discovered. permalink source embed save-RES hide child comments
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    Vehicle - [-] KonzorTheMighty 8715 points 1 day ago The moon landing was only 66 years after the first manned aircraft flight. Within a lifetime, mankind went from not having flight technology to sending men 239,000 miles from the Earth. permalink source embed save-RES hide child comments
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    Text - [-1 jus in_bello 2064 points 1 day ago The moon landings were done with computers less powerful than the smart phone I am typing this comment with. permalink source embed save-RES parent hide child comments [- Hands 1698 points 1 day ago The Apollo Guidance Computer is closer to a TI-83 graphing calculator in terms of power than a modern smartphone.
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    Adaptation - [-] MagnaCaesar 3778 points 1 day ago The Republic of Venice existed at the same time as the United States for the first 21 years of the new country's existence. Venice was partitioned and dissolved by France and Austria in 1797 ending its 1100 year history as a sovereign nation. permalink source embed save-RES hide child comments
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    Transport - [] LeoPanthera 259 points 23 hours ago People travelled to the last public execution in London on the tube. permalink source embed save-RES hide child comments
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    Landmark - TheQuick1 O 582 points 1 day ago While Hannibal was crossing the Alps into the Roman Empire with attach elephants, the Great Wall of China was in its initial phases of being built. Year: 218 BC permalink source embed save-RES hide child comments
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    Text - [-]Lolosaurus2 6730 points 1 day ago The last political vestige of the Gengis Khan's empire (the Crimean Khanate) was still around when the USA was founded. permalink source embed save-RES hide child comments
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    Face - 52 points 19 hours ago [WeTrudgeOn Teddy Roosevelt watched Abraham Lincolns funeral procession as it went by his grandfathers house in New York, 79 years later his son went ashore with the first wave on D-Day permalink source embed save-RES hide child comments
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    Landmark - [ hykns 3925 points 1 day ago The city of Boston was founded (1630) while Galileo was still alive and Isaac Newton had yet to be born (1642) permalink source embed save-RES hide child comments
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    Psychedelic art - 3217 points 1 day ago [] ICryAtNightSometimes Picasso died the same year Pink Floyd released "Dark Side Of The Moon" permalink source embed save-RES hide child comments
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    Photograph - 2476 points 1 day ago [] RedRidingMeme Marilyn Monroe and Queen Elizabeth II were born on the same year (1926) , here is a picture of them meeting at 30 years old each. permalink source embed save-RES hide child comments
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    Forehead - [ biochem dude 9072 points 23 hours ago Charles Darwin's pet tortoise Harriet died in 2006 yet Darwin died in 1882. permalink source embed save-RES hide child comments
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