19 amazing historical facts that will change your perception of time

When we try to organize historical events in our heads, we often simplify things by dividing them into “old times” and “modernity,” because it can be difficult for our brain to cope with the perception of time. But it can happen that the things that we attribute to modernity are actually much older than we think. We present to your attention 19 historical events that will make you reconsider your attitude to the past.

John Tyler, 10th President of the United States, was born in 1790. He has two living grandchildren. This means that when the Civil War broke out, their grandfather was 8 years old.

Marilyn Monroe and Queen Elizabeth were born in the same year. Here they meet at the premiere of the film in London in 1956, both 30 years old.

The Hariett tortoise, who died in 2006, saw Charles Darwin with her own eyes.

Mammoths still existed when the Egyptians built their pyramids.

Oxford University existed many years before the Aztec empire was founded in 1428.

George Washington died in 1799, and the remains of dinosaurs were first found in 1824. Washington never found out that dinosaurs existed.

Nintendo was founded when Jack the Ripper was still walking around free.

Anna Frank and Martin Luther King were born in the same year, 1929.

The oldest living tree today, Bristlecon Pine, was 1000 years old when the last mammoth died.

The first film, entitled "Star Wars," was released the same year that the guillotine was last used in France, in 1977.

In 1971, the first lunar rover arrived on the moon, and Swiss women first gained the right to vote.

The fax was invented in the same 1843, when the first wagons set off along the famous Oregon Route.

You could use the London Underground to come to the last public hang-up in the UK in 1868.

Princess Diana and mother Teresa died in 1997 with a few days difference.

NASA was already exploring space at full speed, when scientists in 1967 only came to the conclusion that tectonic plates exist.

The last known widow of Civil War veteran Modi Hopkins died in 2008. In the same year, Barack Obama won his first presidential election. (Pictured is 89-year-old Modi at home in 2004).

In the first few years after its founding, Harvard University did not offer students calculus lessons. The fact is that at that time calculus was not yet invented.

Ecstasy was invented in 1912. Then, when the Titanic sank.

Charlie Chaplin and Adolf Hitler were born in 1889. Interestingly, Chaplin portrayed Hitler in his satire "The Great Dictator" of 1940.

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