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23 Facts that may challenge your understanding of time/history

Posted on 3/24/14 at 3:44 pm
Posted by AnonymousTiger
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Posted on 3/24/14 at 3:44 pm
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1. Cleopatra lived closer to the building of Pizza Hut than the pyramids.

The Great Pyramid was built cerca 2560 BC, while Cleopatra lived around 30 BC. The first Pizza Hut opened in 1958, which is about 500 years closer.

2. Every two minutes, we take as many photos as all of humanity took during the 1800s.

On the left is the first photograph ever taken (1826), View from the Window at Le Gras by French inventor Joseph Nicéphore Niépce. On the right is a cat who accidentally took a picture of itself (2013). It’s estimated that in 2014, humans will take 880 billion photos (not including cats). In fact, 10% of all the photos ever taken were taken in the past 12 months.

3. Oxford University is older than the Aztecs.

Teaching started in Oxford as early as 1096, and by 1249, the University was officially founded. The Aztec civilization as we know it began with the founding of Tenochtitlán in 1325.

5. In the span of 66 years, we went from taking flight to landing on the moon.

In 1903 the Wright brothers successfully flew a plane for a whopping 59 seconds. 38 years later, in 1941, the Japanese used flight to bomb Pearl Harbor. Only 28 years after that, Apollo 11 landed on the moon in 1969.

6. There is more processing power in a TI-83 calculator than in the computer that landed Apollo 11 on the moon.

The guidance computer from the Apollo 11 mission ran at 1.024 MHz, about 1/6th of the processing power of a TI-83 calculator. One is used by students to play Tetris, the other took humans to the moon.

8. John Tyler, America's 10th President, has two living grandchildren.

John Tyler served from 1841 to 1845, a full 20 years before Abraham Lincoln. He had a son, Lyon, at age 63. Lyon would have Lyon Jr. and Harrison at 71 and 75, respectively. Both are still alive today and in their 80's.

9. The first pyramids were built while the woolly mammoth was still alive.

While most mammoths died out long before civilizations arose, a small populations survived until 1650 BC. By that point, Egypt was halfway through its empire, and the Giza Pyramids were already 1000 years old.

13. This is what the difference in Olympic Gold looks like across 56 years of women’s vault.

On the left, Larisa Latinya wins gold for the USSR in 1956. On the right, McKayla Maroney wins gold for the US in 2012.

15. When Warner Brothers formed, the Ottoman Empire was still alive.

Harry, Albert, Sam, and Jack Warner opened their first theater, the Cascade, in New Castle, Pennsylvania in 1903. Meanwhile, the Ottoman Empire spanned from 1299 to 1923, when Turkey became an independent nation.

16. Harvard University was founded before calculus was derived.

Harvard is the oldest higher education institution in the US, founded in 1636. Calculus wasn't derived until later in the 17th century, with the work of Gottfried Leibniz and Isaac Newton.

19. There was more time between the Stegosaurus and the Tyrannosaurus Rex than between the Tyrannosaurus Rex and you.

The Stegosaurus lived ~150 million years ago, while the T-Rex lived only ~65 million years ago. Practically yesterday.

20. If you’re over 45, the world population has doubled in your lifetime.

In 1968, the world population was 3,557,000,000. Today, the world population is 7,217,000,000 and grows by over 200,000 daily.

21. There are whales alive today who were born before Moby Dick was written.

Some of the bowhead whales living off the coast of Alaska are well over 200 years old. They were born well before Moby Dick was written in 1851.

22. If the history of Earth were compressed to a single year, modern humans would appear on December 31st at about 11:58pm.
The human race has lived on Earth for only 0.004% of the planet's history.


I didn't realize some of these, like Oxford being older than the Aztecs. Also, the article is a little old, but I searched and nothing came up.
Posted by LSUballs
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Posted on 3/24/14 at 3:52 pm to
Damn, the Tylers are a bunch of virile old bastards.
Posted by Tigris
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Posted on 3/24/14 at 3:59 pm to
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Oxford being older than the Aztecs


That was probably the most surprising, pretty good list.
Posted by Jimbeaux
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Posted on 3/24/14 at 3:59 pm to
Cool stuff! Especially this one:
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, like Oxford being older than the Aztecs.
Posted by CheeseburgerEddie
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Posted on 3/24/14 at 4:07 pm to
24. Cleopatra and Queen Elizabeth I were the same person.
Posted by Sentrius
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Posted on 3/24/14 at 4:09 pm to
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8. John Tyler, America's 10th President, has two living grandchildren.


Easily the most impressive and mind blowing on this list.
Posted by DawgCountry
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Posted on 3/24/14 at 4:10 pm to
Solid list. It's been floating around Facebook
Posted by MSTiger33
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Posted on 3/24/14 at 4:11 pm to


McKayla would have been tried for witchcraft if she competed in 1956

Posted by WhoDats10
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Posted on 3/24/14 at 4:17 pm to
Damn
Posted by Cdawg
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Posted on 3/24/14 at 4:23 pm to
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8. John Tyler, America's 10th President, has two living grandchildren.

WOW. Now THAT is the most impressive fact.
Posted by NewIberiaHaircut
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Posted on 3/24/14 at 5:02 pm to
You skipped some numbers in this list.
Posted by jrodLSUke
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Posted on 3/24/14 at 5:22 pm to
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23 Facts that may challenge your understanding of time/history

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Where's 23? Ughh...I gotta click the link myself? WTF?
Posted by Yat27
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Posted on 3/24/14 at 5:28 pm to
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The last time the Chicago Cubs won a World Series, women were not allowed to vote.


Thanks Mr. 19th Amendment...
Posted by TygerTyger
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Posted on 3/24/14 at 5:29 pm to


Is it just me or does Cleopatra make your pants all tight?
Posted by Spelt it rong
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Posted on 3/24/14 at 5:41 pm to
Whoa
Posted by LSUJuice
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Posted on 3/24/14 at 5:45 pm to
I was hoping this would include the fact that the last time Ole Miss won the SEC in football, we had yet to land on the moon and Kennedy was president.
Posted by willthezombie
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Posted on 3/24/14 at 5:50 pm to
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8. John Tyler, America's 10th President, has two living grandchildren.


pimping
Posted by LSUTigers1986
Member since Mar 2014
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Posted on 3/24/14 at 6:01 pm to
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22. If the history of Earth were compressed to a single year, modern humans would appear on December 31st at about 11:58pm.

We know the author watched the first episode of the Cosmos remake.

And he still got it wrong. It isn't the history of Earth. It's the history of the universe compressed into one year.

I don't see why anyone would be wowed by the Ottoman Empire one. Pretty sure if you care a lick about history you know they were around until after WW1.
Posted by LSUTIGER in TEXAS
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Posted on 3/24/14 at 7:33 pm to
you get a up arrow for putting them in the OP and not making making click some link. good for you.
Posted by Clark W Griswold
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Posted on 3/24/14 at 7:34 pm to
The idea that someone can say with certainty that those two dinasaurs never shared the earth is absurd.
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