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 As he had a job offer in San Francisco
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
The last execution by guillotine in France happened while Star Wars A New Hope was already in theaters.
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.
No way. Prove it!
Edit: looked it up myself. It is true, everything is true. Can’t believe it.
Execution happened September 10th, 1977. Starwars was released May 25, 1977 (in the US.)
I just checked. Crazy.
Thanks for reaffirming.
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
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And Christoffer Lee (Saruman) was at the execution!
I stand corrected.
Christopher Lee?
Autocorrect lol
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.
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.
See libs!? We’re just putting the CO2 back where it belongs! Check and mate climate fear mongers! /s
"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.
Fffffff, that’s like a movie set in 1974 released today.
Jeez… 😮
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.
Will definitely keep an eye out for it, thanks again for the tip, I likely would never even have considered it otherwise! 👍
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
I suppose it makes some sense. We were making 1970s throwback shows and movies as early as the 1990s.
Holy shit…
Oh that’s wild, I would not have guessed it even happening in the 1900s
Oh yeah it involved trains and was interrupted by the civil war
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, 97 years old.
Edit: Math is hard
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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.
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.
Nah, I just genuinely want to learn new trivia stuff. I already know the common ones like the mammoths and pyramids for example.
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.
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.
Apollo 14 and Women’s suffrage in Switzerland (1971)
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
Yeah, fuck Mehmet the second amirite guys?
I blame pope innocent the third personally
Don’t hate on my man Innocent III, he said he was against attacking Christians and excommunicated the crusader army for attacking Zara. The sore loser Alexios IV Angelos offered the crusader army too much to ignore (from Wikipedia):
There, Alexios IV offered to pay the entire debt owed to the Venetians, give 200,000 silver marks to the crusaders, 10,000 Byzantine professional troops for the Crusade, the maintenance of 500 knights in the Holy Land, the service of the Byzantine navy to transport the Crusader Army to Egypt, and the placement of the Eastern Orthodox Church under the authority of the Pope, if they would sail to Constantinople and topple the reigning emperor Alexios III Angelos, brother of Isaac II.
That fucker got ousted by the public one year later and didn’t deliver anything so he essentially scammed the whole crusade. The other parts of the army not simping for Venetian and Thessalonian rat plans just went straight to Acre instead.
NO!!! MY NARRITIVE!!! HOW COULD YOU!!!
I was surprised too, I think there should be a twitch chat version for all history
Both of these points are common denominators for the end of the european middle ages, so it’s not surprising they are close to each other
Romans saw the Americas
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?
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?
The pyramids in Egypt were built before, during and after Noah’s flood was supposed to be killing everyone.
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?
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?
All of this makes it more confusing, not less
Anne Frank and Martin Luther King Jr were born in the same year, which made them 3 years younger than Queen Elizabeth II and Marilyn Monroe
Julius Caesar and Cleopatra died 40-30 years before the birth of Jesus Christ
Well, Julius Caesar and Cleopatra were an item, so it is not that surprising they were contemporary.
I knew that Elizabeth II and Marilyn Monroe were less than two months apart with their birthdays (21 Apr 1926 vs. 1 Jun 1926), but it was always a bit surreal. Can you imagine a 80 year old Marilyn Monroe in 2006?
Laura Ingalls Wilder nearly lived long enough to see a satellite launched into space. She lived through a time when the fastest means of transport went from a steam train to it being a rocket.
There was a whole generation like that.
Galileo, the homeboy who discovered Jupiter’s moons and Saturn’s rings, was 43 years old when the first British settlers landed at Jamestown.
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.
