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TopicRandom Interesting Facts ITT #3
Foppe
07/31/23 5:57:37 AM
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Some "I cant believe that is true!" facts...

Frozen came out the same year Mississippi officially abolished slavery.

When Harvard opened, they didnt have calculus classes because calculus hadnt been invented yet.

Oxford University celebrated its 200th graduating class by the time the Aztec Empire started in Central America.

The last execution by guillotine occured on September 10th 1977. The Atari 2600 was released the very next day.

People walked on the moon before we put wheels on a suitcase.

Betty White and the Ottoman Empire existed at the same time.

The last mammoths lived at the time the pyramids were under construction.

Nintendo was founded when Jack the Ripper was roaming the streets of London.

Women in Switzerland got right to vote in 1971. India already had a woman prime minister then.

The Qing Dynasty of China collapsed in 1912, the same year as the Titanic disaster.

The Titanic maiden voyage happened the same year MDMA was created.

William Shakespear and Pocahontas were alive at the same time.

Pablo Picasso died the same year Pink Floyds Dark Side Of the Moon was released.

The last surviving witness to the Lincoln assassination appeared on the TV game show Ive Got A Secret several weeks before his death in 1954.

Samurai, the fax machine and Abraham Lincoln all existed at the same time.

Victorian England and the Wild West happened at the same time.

Orville Wright of the Wright brothers lived long enough to see Chuck Yaeger break the sound barrier and travel on an airliner that had a wingspan equal to the distance he covered in his first flight (37m).

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