20 Mind Blowing Historical Facts That Will Completely Change Your Perspective

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    Tortoise - Harriet The Tortoise, who passed away in 2006, had met Charles Darwin in person.
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    Portrait - The first dinosaur fossil was discovered 25 years after the death of George Washington. This means that he never knew dinosaurs existed.
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    Eyewear - Marilyn Monroe and Queen Elizabeth were born in the same year, 1926.
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    Text - The first "Star Wars" movie came out the same year as the last guillotine execution in France, 1977
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    Electronics - The fax machine was invented on the same year that the first wagon crossed the Oregon Trail, 1843 E FAGEMLE s e4-n n
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    Text - Just days after McDonalds was founded, prisoners started making their way to Auschwitz, 1940.
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    Facial expression - Charlie Chaplin and Hitler were both born in 1889.
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    Cartoon - The Nintendo Company was founded while Jack The Ripper was still out on the loose. OPA
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    Landmark - The University of Oxford had existed for hundreds of years before the Aztec Empire (1428) was founded
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    Land vehicle - Swiss women won the right to vote the same year that the U.S. drove a buggy on the moon, 1971.
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    Hair - Princess Diana and Mother Teresa died just days apart in 1997.
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    sugar pine - The oldest tree in the worldw already 1000 years of age when the last Woolly Mammoth died as
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    Airplane - Orville Wright was still alive when Nagasaki and Hiroshima were bombed, 1945
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    Text - You could take the London Underground train to the last public hanging in the UK. 1868. (Page 311) Hanging of Fry and Hensio near the railroad, by Colonel Leadbetter.
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    Water transportation - Ecstasy was invented in 1912, the same year that the Titanic sank. BEA TRIALS OF R.M.STITANIC. DELFAST LOUGH 2 APRIL 1212
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    Pyramid - While the Great Pyramids were being built (2660 B.C.E.) there were Woolly Mammoths still roaming the earth.
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    Sitting - Anne Frank and Martin Luther King were born in the same year, 1929. Jr
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    Landmark - During the first few years of its existence, Harvard University didn't offer calculus courses. This is because calculus hadn't been invented yet COPYRIGHT, BY DETROIY PHOTOORAH 6m hage8 MASSA CHUSBITS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, BOSTON.
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    Painting - The Eiffel Tower was inaugurated in 1889, the same year that The Starry Night was painted by Van Gogh.
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    Photo caption - John Tyler, the 10th president of the United States, has 2 living grandchildren. The 2 living grandchildren can currently say that their father (Lyon, the son of John Tyler) was only 8 years of age when the Civil War started.
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