8 Surprising Historical Facts That Will Change Your Concept Of Time Forever

[christiefan915]

Some fascinating stuff here. I love #1!

1. Betty White is older than sliced bread.
2. Harvard University was founded before calculus was invented.
3. The last time the Chicago Cubs won a World Series, the Ottoman Empire still existed.
4. The Pyramids of Giza were built in the time of wooly mammoths.
5. The fax machine was invented the same year as the Oregon trail migration.
6. The jewelry store Tiffany & Co. was founded before Italy was a country.
7. France was still using the guillotine when "Star Wars" came out.
8. Two of President John Tyler's grandsons are still alive.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/02/26/historical-facts-time_n_4832325.html?utm_hp_ref=mostpopular

 

[BRUTALITOPS]

cleopatra lived closer in time to the moon landings than to the building of the pyramids.

 

[Mott the Hoople]

cleopatra lived closer in time to the moon landings than to the building of the pyramids.

By 531 years.

 

[FUCK THE POLICE]

1. Betty White is older than sliced bread.

Maybe generic supermarket white bread, but people have been slicing bread for longer than that. The sandwich is a 19th century invention.

2. Harvard University was founded before calculus was invented.

Durrr, Calculus was invented by Newton, Harvard is in America and there wasn't much at all in America until the 18th century.

4. The Pyramids of Giza were built in the time of wooly mammoths.

Only isolated subpopulations on a Siberian island still existed at the time.

 

[Mott the Hoople]

It took 6500 years from the time the first ships were built for man to circumnavigate the globe by ship. It only took 66 years from the time the first Airplane was built to land a man on the Moon and bring him back safely.

 

[BRUTALITOPS]

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[BRUTALITOPS]

It took 6500 years from the time the first ships were built for man to circumnavigate the globe by ship. It only took 63 years from the time the first Airplane was built to land a man on the Moon and bring him back safely.

66 unless you aren't counting kitty hawk

 

[Mott the Hoople]

66 unless you aren't counting kitty hawk

No, that was a typo. 66 is correct.

 

[FUCK THE POLICE]

It took 6500 years from the time the first ships were built for man to circumnavigate the globe by ship. It only took 66 years from the time the first Airplane was built to land a man on the Moon and bring him back safely.

They used an airplane to get to the moon?

 

[BRUTALITOPS]

he didn't say an airplane flew to the moon dope. he said from the time we invented an airplane until we got to the moon it was 66 years.

 

[Peridot]

Beer predates written history.

 

[cancel2 2022]

Maybe generic supermarket white bread, but people have been slicing bread for longer than that. The sandwich is a 19th century invention.



Durrr, Calculus was invented by Newton, Harvard is in America and there wasn't much at all in America until the 18th century.




Only isolated subpopulations on a Siberian island still existed at the time.

Harvard was founded in 1636 and Newton didn't publish Principia Mathematica until 1687. Liebnitz was said to have arrived at calculus independently in the 1670s but only finally published in 1684.

In the 14th century, Indian mathematician Madhava of Sangamagrama and the Kerala school of astronomy and mathematics stated components of calculus such as the Taylor series and infinite series approximations.[SUP][7][/SUP] Madhava developed some components of calculus such as differentiation, term-by-term integration, iterative methods for solutions of non-linear equations, and the theory that the area under a curve is its integral.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calculus