A thread of mind-blowing facts that will mess with your perception of time
John Tyler, the 10th U.S. president, was born in 1790 & has a living grandson.
John had a son, Lyon, at age 63 in 1853
Lyon had a son, Harrison, at age 75 in 1928.
Harrison Tyler is now 95.
George Washington died in 1799; the first dinosaur fossil was discovered in 1824.
This means that George Washington never knew that dinosaurs existed.
Harriet the tortoise, who died in 2006, was owned by both Charles Darwin & Steve Irwin
The first successful airplane and the moon landing were only 66 years apart
Oxford University existed for several hundred years before the Aztec empire was founded
The original Star Wars came out the same year that France executed someone with a guillotine for the last time
Germany paid its last reparation installment from World War I in 2010, 92 years after the Treaty of Versailles
Uranus was discovered before Antarctica
Wooly mammoths were still alive when the ancient Egyptians were building the pyramids
. Nintendo was founded in 1889 while the Eiffel Tower was still being built & Jack the Ripper was at large
Nuclear bombs were created before birth control
Marilyn Monroe & Queen Elizabeth were born less than 2 months apart. Here they are meeting in the ‘50s
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