Um, Oxford University is older than the Aztecs. So, these 20 mind-blowing facts below will completely change your perception of time.
1. When Star Wars came out, France was still killing people by guillotine.
2. Will Smith is now older than Uncle Phil was when Fresh Prince of Bel-Air started.
3. The First Great Pyramid at Giza was built while Woolly mammoths were still alive.
4. Cleopatra lived closer to the building of Pizza Hut than the pyramids.
5. Betty White is older than sliced bread.
6. Harvard University was founded before Isaac Newton published the laws of motion and gravity.
7. The last time the Chicago Cubs won a World Series, women were not allowed to vote.
8. At the year the fax machine was invented, people were still traveling the Oregon Trail.
9. John Tyler, The 10th president of the United States, still has two grandchildren who are alive today.
10. The Stegosaurus was older to the Tyrannosaurus Rex than the T-Rex is to us.
11. When Warner Brothers were formed, the Ottoman Empire was still a thing.
12. The jewelry company Tiffany & Co. has been around longer than Italy.
13. Anne Frank, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Barbara Walters were all born in the same year.
14. Some of the world’s whales still alive today were born before Moby Dick was written.
15. The Eiffel Tower was built the same year that Nintendo was founded.
16. We made it to the moon only 66 years after the Wright brothers invented human flight.
17. Oxford University is older than the Aztec civilization.
18. The oldest living person was born closer to the signing of the US Constitution than to today.
19. If the history of Earth were compressed to a single year, modern humans would appear on December 31st at about 11:00pm.
20. It seems like That ’70s Show was made way after the end of the ’70s, but that gap is the same as the gap between now and the ’90s.
