Abraham Lincoln could have received a fax from an actual samurai.
All three coexisted at one point in time.
Also, Abraham Lincoln almost joined the Donner Party
They could have been actual photographs of themselves (or drawn dick pics).
There were wooly mammoths living in Russia when the Great Pyramids at Giza were being built
I came here to post this exact fact from one of my favorite vsauce videos
Fucking hell
Apollo 14 and Women’s suffrage in Switzerland (1971)
I feel like this is bait for one specific answer… okay, fine, I’ll be the one.
MLK Jr, Anne Frank, and Yasser Arafat were all born in the same year (1929). They were all born after Tom Lehrer, who died yesterday, 92 years old.
aw Tom Lehrer passed? RIP legend
Yeah. Super sad. There will be more good ones, other skies and stars, but these good ones are gone, they will now not shine again.
Omg, this was one of those “oh no!” moments…his songs were so catchy and hilarious (Tom Lehrer, of course!)
Slight correction though, it looks like Lehrer was 97!
Thanks, corrected, IDK what I was thinking.
Nah, I just genuinely want to learn new trivia stuff. I already know the common ones like the mammoths and pyramids for example.
Edit: Math is hard
Someone should write a song about that.
You can’t take 3 from 2, 2 is less than 3, so you look at the 4 in the tens place
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.
The last execution by guillotine in France happened while Star Wars A New Hope was already in theaters.
No way. Prove it!
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The execution happened in September 1977, whereas Star Wars released in May of the same year
Jeah, I just checked bit too. Thanks for reaffirming.
That is just crazy. Imaging being the last one :D
Execution happened September 10th, 1977. Starwars was released May 25, 1977 (in the US.)
I just checked. Crazy.
Thanks for reaffirming.
It was just called “Star Wars.”
I love it that I can find my people so easily.
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.
And Christoffer Lee (Saruman) was at the execution!
He was at the last public excecution which happened in 1939, after this one they were still done but not publicly
I stand corrected.
Christopher Lee?
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
How‽ 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
I’m only 30 and gay men my parents’ age were few and far between when I was a kid. You didn’t have old trans people who were open about their life unless they were either sex workers or exceptional enough to be in the public eye. Damn near every lesbian my parents’ age was some kind of psychologically broken or she wasn’t really involved in the gay community.
The survivors are still around. Anyone who hasn’t listened to them should while they’re still here because the clock is ticking and hard lives often arent easy ones.
Also anyone interested should listen to ths podcast Making Gay Historty which is interviews with influential queer people, many of which were done during the height of aids
"Consider: Victorian England: 1837-1901 American Old West: 1803-1912 Meiji Restoration: 1868-1912 French privateering in the Gulf of Mexico: ended circa 1830
Conclusion: an adventuring party consisting of a Victorian gentleman thief, an Old West gunslinger, a disgraced former samurai, and an elderly French pirate is actually 100% historically plausible."
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.
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.
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! 👍
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.
Fffffff, that’s like a movie set in 1974 released today.
Oh yeah it involved trains and was interrupted by the civil war
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
Rosa Parks and Harriet Tubman were alive at the same time (for about a month).
What a rollercoaster life did ms. Tubman live. Slave, runaway, people smuggler, living during reconstruction, then seeing all the progress going to shit again, and finally the birth of the civil rights movement, before death.
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)
The pyramids in Egypt were built before, during and after Noah’s flood was supposed to be killing everyone.
Wasn’t the ‘exodus’ just 5 families or something?
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.
Wasn’t it more of an eviction?
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.
Read about Kitty Hawk in the newspaper at 16 years old, in 1903. Watch men walking on the moon on your TV, at 82 years old.
Fuckin’ unreal. Hang out with people who lived through the 20th century, if you ever can, though they are reduced in number now. The perspective they have on things is hard to match. I knew a woman who grew up with black servants in the house who couldn’t vote, then marched with MLK, then watched Obama get elected president. And that’s everything. Every single aspect of human life, basically, except for a few of the very basics. She was always sort of surprised and amused that I had a “phone” that was a smooth black rectangle that I would control by “stroking” (as she called it) this smooth black surface.
I watched her meet a new person of her generation. First question: Was your husband in the war? Answer was yes. Second question: Did he live? He’s not trying to give offense, he just wants to know your situation. He was in the infantry…
Stroking screens ha ha
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.
The summer of 1969 was three of the most influential months in American culture. June: Stonewall riots; July: moon landing; August: Woodstock music festival.
Nintendo was founded the same year that hitler was born.
The Brooklyn bridge was being built when Custer’s last stand took place.
The last one just feels like a docudrama
The fax machine was invented almost 2 decades before the outbreak of the American Civil War.
Also an eyewitness to the assassination of Abraham Lincoln talked about it on a TV game show.
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.
See libs!? We’re just putting the CO2 back where it belongs! Check and mate climate fear mongers! /s
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.
Groucho Marx died the same month as Elvis Presley.
By some reckonings the American Wild West era ended after World War I did. Either way, that era basically coincided with the rule of Queen Victoria.
Galileo, the homeboy who discovered Jupiter’s moons and Saturn’s rings, was 43 years old when the first British settlers landed at Jamestown.
