01-13-2021, 05:50 PM
Time is funny.
Cleopatra lived closer in time to the invention of Snapchat than to the construction of the Great Pyramid at Giza.
As of four years ago, the oldest living person was born closer to the signing of the US Constitution than to today.
Oxford University is older than the Aztec civilization.
Harvard University was founded before Isaac Newton published his laws of motion and gravity.
We made it to the moon only 66 years after the Wright brothers invented human flight.
Woolly mammoths were still alive when the Great Pyramid at Giza was built.
When the first Star Wars movie came out, France was still executing people by guillotine.
The Ottoman Empire still existed when Paramount Studios was founded.
Betty White is older than sliced bread.
If they made a That '90s Show and waited the same amount of time after the decade as That '70s Show waited after the '70s, the show would be made in 2017.
The Eiffel Tower was inaugurated the same year Nintendo was founded.
Some of the world's whales that are alive today were born before Moby-Dick was written.
Pluto didn't even get to complete one orbit around the sun between the time it was discovered and the time it was declassified as a planet.
9/11 happened closer to the fall of the Berlin Wall than to today.
h/t to Buzzfeed: https://www.buzzfeed.com/andyneuenschwan...u-say-whoa
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Cleopatra lived closer in time to the invention of Snapchat than to the construction of the Great Pyramid at Giza.
As of four years ago, the oldest living person was born closer to the signing of the US Constitution than to today.
Oxford University is older than the Aztec civilization.
Harvard University was founded before Isaac Newton published his laws of motion and gravity.
We made it to the moon only 66 years after the Wright brothers invented human flight.
Woolly mammoths were still alive when the Great Pyramid at Giza was built.
When the first Star Wars movie came out, France was still executing people by guillotine.
The Ottoman Empire still existed when Paramount Studios was founded.
Betty White is older than sliced bread.
If they made a That '90s Show and waited the same amount of time after the decade as That '70s Show waited after the '70s, the show would be made in 2017.
The Eiffel Tower was inaugurated the same year Nintendo was founded.
Some of the world's whales that are alive today were born before Moby-Dick was written.
Pluto didn't even get to complete one orbit around the sun between the time it was discovered and the time it was declassified as a planet.
9/11 happened closer to the fall of the Berlin Wall than to today.
h/t to Buzzfeed: https://www.buzzfeed.com/andyneuenschwan...u-say-whoa
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