What if I told you . . .
When pilgrims were landing
on Plymouth Rock, you could already visit what is now Santa Fe, New Mexico to
stay at a hotel, eat at a restaurant and buy Native American silver.
Prisoners began to arrive to Auschwitz a few days after
McDonald's was founded.
The first wagon train of the Oregon Trail heads out the same
year the fax machine is invented.
Nintendo was founded in 1888. Jack the Ripper was on the loose
in 1888.
1912 saw the maiden voyage of the Titanic as well as the birth
of vitamins, x-ray crystallography, and MDMA.
1971: The year in which America drove a lunar buggy on the moon
and Switzerland gave women the vote.
NASA's Gemini program was winding down at the same time as plate
tectonics, as we know it today, was becoming refined and accepted by the
scientific community.
Spain was still a fascist dictatorship when Microsoft was
founded.
There were no classes in calculus in Harvard's curriculum for
the first few years because calculus hadn't been discovered yet.
Two empires [Roman & Ottoman] spanned the entire gap from Jesus
to Babe Ruth.
When the pyramids were being built, there were still woolly
mammoths.
The last use of the guillotine was in France the same year Star
Wars came out.
Oxford University was over 300 years old when the Aztec Empire
was founded.
Would you believe?
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