What are some events in history that most people would be surprised happened in parallel or at least within the same time period?
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The Appalachian Mountains began forming approximately 1.5 billion years ago. About the same time that sea animals were first evolving bones. The carbon that became the coal under them was deposited approximately 300 million years ago when they formed the central continental divide of the Pangea supercontinent. That was when they were at their highest, estimated to have been about the same height as the modern Alps.
Same vein, the Canadian/Laurentian Shield has areas dating back as far as 4.2 billion years, recall a geo prof in uni suggesting it would have been extremely tall, Wikipedia suggests 12km.
Stuff gets unreal to me at geological timescales.
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You thought the guy who invented clip art lived in the 1400s?
I think many people lump him in with the Italian Renaissance, because the name. And many people don't know quite when the Renaissance happened.
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Bill Clinton winning the 1992 election against George H. W. Bush to later become the 42nd president of the USA
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Homosexuality is no longer classified as a mental illness according to WHO's ICD (International Classification of Diseases)Thanks for raising the LGBT community people don't realise how awful our history is
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There was also a Persian Empire on the map during World War 1. Qajar Persia specifically.
Ottomans as well
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I think many people lump him in with the Italian Renaissance, because the name. And many people don't know quite when the Renaissance happened.
The Renaissance was in the 1980s, right?
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It was just called "Star Wars."
Yeah, I remember seeing it titled A New Hope, and asking "When did that happen? That wasn't there from the start, right? I couldn't have missed that."
Turns out I was right, it was some later interpolation. Lucas doesn't know to leave well enough alone.
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If you want to see a great (if also absurdly violent and bloody) Western about the dying days of the wild west, check out Sam Peckinpah's The Wild Bunch (1969). Excellent movie, set in 1913.
wrote on last edited by [email protected]Another really great, and highly underrated film about the end of the Old West, is The Shootist.
It's John Wayne's last movie, and it serves as a metaphor for his acting career. He plays a legendary, but aging, dying gunfighter who is determined to go down shooting, and other gunfighters come to town to test him. It also features late performances by Lauren Bacall and Jimmy Stewart, and an early film performance by Ron Howard.
A truly great, quiet film, that most people have never heard of.
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Edit: Math is hard
Someone should write a song about that.
They Might Be Giants probably wrote more than one.
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I mean it makes perfect sense. From her perspective, I would just pull it out of my pocket and start gently rubbing it carefully with my finger, or prodding softly at it. She just thought it was weird. Why are you doing that? Okay, your device's principles are strange.
She actually never got completely used to "buttons" as she called it, any kind of machine that you had to use a separate control setup for other than just the direct valves or levers involved. Turning the steering wheel makes sense, turning the knobs on the stove makes sense. Any time she put something in the toaster oven, though, with its multiple modes and controls, she would just savagely twist or push any knob she could find until the thing started making heat, and then when she was done, she would remove the object and leave the door open to let the thing gradually figure out things out on its own and shut off. "Life is short, man, don't bother me with your goddamn buttons, I don't care."
When my mom got her first smartphone, she had such a hard time with buttons. She would either poke at the quickly and tentatively (she thought she'd get a shock), or push really hard. She finally figured it out, but it took far too long.
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Another really great, and highly underrated film about the end of the Old West, is The Shootist.
It's John Wayne's last movie, and it serves as a metaphor for his acting career. He plays a legendary, but aging, dying gunfighter who is determined to go down shooting, and other gunfighters come to town to test him. It also features late performances by Lauren Bacall and Jimmy Stewart, and an early film performance by Ron Howard.
A truly great, quiet film, that most people have never heard of.
I'll need to check that out - have heard of it, but never seen it. Not usually a fan of John Wayne, but it sounds a good premise. Thanks!
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I'll need to check that out - have heard of it, but never seen it. Not usually a fan of John Wayne, but it sounds a good premise. Thanks!
I'm not a big fan either (a few exceptions), but this is definitely his best performance. He's The Duke all the way, but it is a character that he nearly invented, so he's perfect in it.
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I'm not a big fan either (a few exceptions), but this is definitely his best performance. He's The Duke all the way, but it is a character that he nearly invented, so he's perfect in it.
Will definitely keep an eye out for it, thanks again for the tip, I likely would never even have considered it otherwise!
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American Old West: 1803-1912
I had no idea it was that young.
This lead me to this fun fact: The last stage coach robbery was 2 years after WWI began.
Last stage coach robbery was 1916
Also, Titanic had already been sitting at the bottom of the Atlantic for 4 years (1912) when that stage coach was robbed.
Oh yeah it involved trains and was interrupted by the civil war
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Battle of Little Big Horn was in June, 1876.
The first telephone call was made March 10, 1876.
Man Walked on the Moon in 1969. A few weeks after the Stonewall Riots.
The summer of 1969 was three of the most influential months in American culture. June: Stonewall riots; July: moon landing; August: Woodstock music festival.
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Thanks for raising the LGBT community people don't realise how awful our history is
Howâ˝ Maybe I just spoke to my elders when I was younger, but even as a baby queer I knew that we were mocked as we died en masse, that we weren't released from the concentration camps after WWII, and that we used to get arrested for anything and everything related to queerness.
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Galileo, the homeboy who discovered Jupiterâs moons and Saturnâs rings, was 43 years old when the first British settlers landed at Jamestown.
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Howâ˝ Maybe I just spoke to my elders when I was younger, but even as a baby queer I knew that we were mocked as we died en masse, that we weren't released from the concentration camps after WWII, and that we used to get arrested for anything and everything related to queerness.
Yep IME they often think it's ancient history though, they don't realise how recent it is
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They Might Be Giants probably wrote more than one.
I can't think of one specifically about math, unless you wanna count the Advil bit at the beginning of Til My Head Falls Off or the "count the arms the legs and heads and then divide by five" part of Certain People I Could Name. Or most of the tracks on Here Come the 123s, but those are more about numbers than math itself.
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The last execution by guillotine in France happened while Star Wars A New Hope was already in theaters.
And Christoffer Lee (Saruman) was at the execution!
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Wasn't the 'exodus' just 5 families or something?
Wasn't it more of an eviction?
