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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Sharks are about 450-400 million years old. They were around 200 million years before the dinosaurs, and have outlasted them by 65 million years. They're older than the North Star, the rings of Saturn, the Atlantic Ocean, and trees.
And it took 60 million years for the trees to start rotting when they died, because the bacteria to break them down didn't exist. Those trees died, fell over, became peat, and then eventually coal. The trees that were dead and buried trapped carbon dioxide that had been in the atmosphere. 90% of the coal we burn today comes from the period when trees didn't rot, and we're re-releasing all that CO2 back into the atmosphere, from where it's been safely sequestered for 250 million years.
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.
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Abraham Lincoln could have received a fax from an actual samurai.
All three coexisted at one point in time.
wrote on last edited by [email protected]Also, Abraham Lincoln almost joined the Donner Party As he had a job offer in San Francisco
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Picasso passed away in the 2 years time between when Soviet Union and US launched their first space station into space.
This feels surprising mainly because I thought Picasso lived in 1400s. But no he just lived a long life in early 20th century.
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Although they are both stories based on historical events that have been embellished, the Trojan war and the Hebrews leaving Egypt very well could have been happening at the same time (around 1180 BCE)
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World War 2 happened a few years after after World War 1. If someone didn't already know that it would be pretty surprising I think.
wrote on last edited by [email protected]There was also a Persian Empire on the map during World War 1. Qajar Persia specifically.
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Although they are both stories based on historical events that have been embellished, the Trojan war and the Hebrews leaving Egypt very well could have been happening at the same time (around 1180 BCE)
Wasn't the 'exodus' just 5 families or something?
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Wasn't the 'exodus' just 5 families or something?
wrote on last edited by [email protected]As far as I know there is no evidence for a distinct big event, but there were smaller migration movements over a longer time period.
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There were humans who lived through both the final fall of the (eastern half of) the Roman Empire (May 29, 1453) and the European discovery of the Americas (October 12, 1492). The time between these two critical milestones in European history seems like it should have been much longer than 39 years, 4 months, and 13 days.
We were so close to a neo roman Republic but instead we got America. You've ruined my day fuck you
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This was very surprising after having seen a few Western movies from the 1940s. They were already making movies about the period which was in living memory for a lot of people.
Wyatt Earp was an adviser on early silent westerns
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Picasso passed away in the 2 years time between when Soviet Union and US launched their first space station into space.
This feels surprising mainly because I thought Picasso lived in 1400s. But no he just lived a long life in early 20th century.
You thought the guy who invented clip art lived in the 1400s?
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As far as I know there is no evidence for a distinct big event, but there were smaller migration movements over a longer time period.
From what I understand there would have been bodies and other trash from the group that we would have found.
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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.
Holy shit.....
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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.
