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therealgrennhald
Steam power was discovered over 100 years before the birth of Julius Caesar.
Brandy321
Spain joined the EU when Microsoft became a fascist dictatorship.
scootypuffjr73
Have to call out the cubs one! The curse is lifted.
armorhide406
Star Wars came out while the guillotine was in use
LurkerOfDarkness
20 years after the collapse of the third reich (thousand year reich), it's neighbour, Denmark, officially celebrated 1000 years of existence
wickedapple
Queen Elizabeth and Marilyn Monroe were born the same year
Weblord
Yet there have been no anal sex rumours involving HRH.
TezuNii
1926. HRH was born just over a month before monroe
mantonyz
That last one is no longer true. The Cubs won the World Series in 2016, 108 year after their previous win.
baldorr
So if you know your history, these are not weird at all. What are the real weird ones?
Weblord
Did someone mention the Cleopatra thing? That she lived closer to the moon landing than she did the building of the Great Pyramid.
PolkaBrat
Here's one: Donald Trump became president one year before you tried to take the fun out of this post.
Ryanator50
I think that sucked the fun outta him. I know it made me depressed.
tChinChin
The japanese empire was founded centuries before Jesus and still exists today
monkeymuffins
Not really. The title of emperor was retroactively applied to legendary figures centuries later. The first historical ruler of Japan didn't
monkeymuffins
come about until the 5th century or so. Otherwise, you'd have to take for fact that Japanese emperors really are descendants of Amaterasu.
PatchworkFox
Betty White is older than sliced bread.
OsoLoco1313
and SALTY af!
ILikeToHideInLongCommentChains
Sliced bread the greatest thing since Betty White.
SnarkySophia
This is one of my favorite things I've learned from the internet. I've taken to saying "the best thing since Betty White."
RawDogginChixSince2000Six
By like a year lol
hemingwayscat
Still true.
Unhalfbricking
McDonalds was founded in 1940, originally as a restaurant - only later did it become a burger joint and then sold to Ray Kroc in 1955.
TheInfernalContraption
First house I bought (and still live in) has electricity, running water and wifi. It is nearly half the age of the United States of America.
imactuallydoingthings
There needs to be an edit after the cubbies won in 2016!
ThatOneWeirdKid345
France were still executing people when the first Star Wars came out I paid attention in year 8 French
CloudberryMoose
The last American civil war widow died almost exactly a year after SpaceX was founded
HesProbablyFine
FYI: She married an 81-year-old vet when she was 21, 62 years after the war. She's not a "Civil War widow," she's a widow of a vet. ;)
Jazzgirl205
I met her at a party in Selma, AL.
Rubyredslippers33
Also...ewww
CloudberryMoose
I'm well aware of the details. But if I can get away with a technicality then by Jove I will do so! +1 for adding the actual facts though.
thisistotallynotausername
Umm did world war 2 not end in 1945-6 or is google and wikipedia wrong about mcdonalds being founded in 1955?
Locolarue
Not when Ray Kroc founded the company, when the McDonald's brothers started the original business.
LurkerOfDarkness
It actually didn't end until 1990, since there was no Germany before reunification to officially end it, but in practice, 1945.
wickedapple
That was the corporation date. The first stand was opened in the 40s.
wickedapple
Dick and Mac McDonald, opened a single drive-in barbecue restaurant in San Bernardino, California in 1940.
thisistotallynotausername
Oh ok
Eireman4Ever
Do you NOT know when WWII ended ffs?
valinnut
The pyramids were to the romans, what the romans are to us.
littlegingerone
Guinness is 163 years older than the irish state
SmellOfMonkey
Seeing as the Irish state is permadrunk, i dispute this fact
VinnieJonesDiary
Fuck off.
SusieSoups
And has a 9000 year lease on the Guinness Storehouse
Spearka
The Black Death happened at roughly the same time humans started to settle New Zealand
pornopaul
That is one I'd have never guessed.
imtheimgur
The Ottoman Empire existed in 2016?
LucifereFolio
Ofc
shimmernshine
This list may be a little out of date
PatchworkFox
I think they were referring to the 1908 win.
TheChandrian
HadMeSomeChickens
LtKifKroker
I think his point is that this is no longer a list of correct statements
Tikityler
No, that is the most recent time. 1908 is the last time.
OtterlyMagnificent
Exactly.
r0b0tc0rpse
Ottoman empire fell, 108 year drought for the cubs. Coincidence? I think not!
NotThePainter
At some point, Shakespeare stopped being Contemporary literature and became Classics at Harvard.
Zahnradfee
Uhm, Shakespeare was already dead when Harvard was founded. Would he ever be considered contemporary there?
NotThePainter
literature doesn't become a classic instantly
bootninja
maybe he meant oxford?
LtKifKroker
That last one is no longer true
YourMomJokes
for now...
PascalCasedUserName
How would it possibly be true again?
LtKifKroker
YourMomJokes plans on reuniting the ottoman empire
keilong
Two of President John Tyler's Grandson's are still alive. He was the 10th president.
Counterfit
Dude lived a long time after he left office.
StarwithoutaSky
Somehow the Oxford one blows my mind.... I don’t know why that one seems the strangest....
SantaPanda
also because there were other empires that existed before the aztec, just most well known because cortez conquered it
TezuNii
Oxford is currently 922 years old
Ryanator50
oh yeah? why's that? is oxford famous for calculus?
Ryanator50
wow I didn't know any of that! by the way, what exactly is Calculus? I know it's a type of math, but what is it for?
Jaeto
Used for calculusating
DukeDarkwood
Nah, calculus was mentioned in the Harvard line... besides, it's Cambridge (near as old as Oxford) that's famous for calculus - Newton came
DukeDarkwood
up with it while teaching there (side note: a German mathematician also came up with it independently, but that's a WHOLE other story). But
DukeDarkwood
back to the story - Harvard was founded in 1636, and calculus wasn't a thing until the 1670s. (As an amusing side note, Harvard is located
DukeDarkwood
in a Massachusetts town named after Cambridge!)
DeathStarTechSupport
Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, and Donald Trump were all born within a 3 month span of 1947.
Undrave
Well then, fuck you too, 1947 :p
DukeDarkwood
The baby boom started the year after WWII ended. While still a neat coincidence for their station, this one isn't THAT remarkable.
AmaIthea
It does make me realise how young Clinton was when POTUS and how old Trump is.
ILikePugandFrenchiePictures
Fake news. Trump is the youngest president ever. The YOUNGEST. Hillary WISHES she was as young as Trump.
okayhazelgrace
The fax machine was invented the same year that the Oregon Trail migration started
Ryanator50
okay now THAT'S hard to beleive
OliverClothesoff70
wHaT's a fAx mAcHinE?
Rip42
By this reasoning the AK-47 was invented in china around the 700s. The telegraph and fax machine are different things.
okayhazelgrace
https://faxauthority.com/fax-history/
okayhazelgrace
Who said anything about a telegraph? The fax machine was patented by Alexander Bain in 1843.
justsome
TIL that sending texts preceded the telephone.
Rip42
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fax I now feel like an idiot. Thanks.
TheBlueMuppet
Well...go with the feeling! - Reduced Shakespeare Company, The Complete Word Of God (Abridged).
justsome
Don't feel too bad. You very nearly made a really good point! The fax just didn't support it.
jonlundsverige
Didnt know Auschwitz had a McDonalds?
JustFunFacts
Nintendo was founded a year after the Jack The Ripper killings. (1888 and 1889)
pilomotor
Before they had the technology for video games, Nintendo was involved in playing cards, cab services, love hotels, and instant rice.
javer80
I learned this from Matt Taranto! https://youtu.be/xR5DaYuDWYs
Ryanator50
they should bring those love hotels back. I wanna fuck Zelda Peach and Samus.
Undrave
You'll have to supply your own Zelda, Peach and Samus. Love Hotels are for couples to hit while on dates. Not brothels.
Catfoood
I think you can rent them out nightly, though. And I think they're cheaper than a regular hotel in Japan?
ICantDigestLactoseImaHufflepuff
They could supply the costumes
pilomotor
Can you imagine the logistics of supplying rental costumes for costumed sex, while ensuring the costumes are cleaned thoroughly each time?
Ryanator50
huh weird, in america we just call those motels.
pilomotor
Love hotels let you rent by the hour, and the rooms are usually decorated with romance in mind, and cleaned thoroughly between customers.
ExcuseMe2
That is so blatantly false...
CourtWizard
They weren't always a video game company
ExcuseMe2
Nintendo wasn't fucking founded in the 1800s.
CourtWizard
Maybe you should google it
ExcuseMe2
Maybe you should?
NameNotFoundException
How so?
jax2583
COINCIDENCE?!?!?!
mistakesweremadeagain
I THINK NOT!!
TitaniumMonkeyBalls
The Tower of London was over 350 years old when construction began on Machu Picchu.
Tigersterne
Yes but how old is the American belief that the Tower Bridge is called London Bridge?
AGuyFromHawaii
Since the last time it fell down.
Oknomorecreeping
Had to check this one. Tower of London 1078. Macchu piccu c.1450. Wow. Thanks titaniummonkeyballs
Stuey1221
Holy shit. That means the church in my town is older than the Tower of London.....! What the fuckballs
VodkaReindeer
*what the titaniummonkeyballs
Stuey1221
That too
AwkwardLee
Now that is interesting! +1 with gratitude.
pornopaul
That's crazy. I never realized the Tower of London was so old, or a place could go to ruin and look so ancient so quickly.
monkeymuffins
Well, the Tower of London has been restored a whole bunch of times, whereas Machu Picchu was abandoned not long after it was built.
definitelynotawolf
It was built by William the Conqueror, and no one has conquered England since. That helps longevity of iconic buildings
AwkwardLee
So true.
tomyironmane
Heat, humidity and plant life are absolute hell on civil engineering.