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30 Radical Bits of Historical Trivia That Would Leave Bill and Ted Feeling, Like, Way Dubious

March 30, 2024

The American education system really does not do history any favors. There’s so much cool stuff happening everywhere, all the time, and all we learn about is which pungent drunks signed which parchments. Here are a few historical facts that may just help you appreciate the world, and your place in it…

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The Titanic sank in 1912 - PoR KISS You the same year that ecstacy was invented. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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The oldest living tree was almost five thousand years old when it was cut down. It was already 1,000 years old when the last woolly mammoth died. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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When the Pilgrims landed on Plymouth Rock, the Palace of the Governors was already standing in New Mexico. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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The Battle of Little Bighorn was raging while the Brooklyn Bridge was being built. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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George Washington died in 1799 - over 20 years before anyone knew about dinosaurs. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Cru ec Will Smith is older than Uncle Phil was at the beginning of The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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AND A DE GUARDE SH Nintendo existed while Jack the Ripper was terrorizing London. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Queen Elizabeth II and Marilyn Monroe were born in the same year. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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KEANU REEVES LAUREN TRON The Matrix is older now than Tron was when The Matrix was released. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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France's last execution by guillotine happened the same year Star Wars came out. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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27 Anne Frank and Martin Luther King, Jr. were born in the same year. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Warner Bros. Entertainment was established in 1923 - WD ST XIXIXIXIX less than one year before the fall of the Ottoman Empire. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Interracial marriage was banned in South Africa for 36 years. It was illegal in the US for 5 times longer. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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Auschwitz became operational in May 1940 - McDonald's FAMOUS BARBECUE NARBEIT MACHT FREI RS McDonald's the same month that McDonalds was founded. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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The fax machine was invented in 1843 - when wagons were first rolling along the Oregon Trail. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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The last Civil War widow died the year Barack Obama won his first presidential election. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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You're closer in time to the T-rex than the T-rex was to the Stegosaurus. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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EXIT There were 5 years where you could take the London Underground to see a public hanging. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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ATOGRAPHE LUMIÈRE The first erotic film was screened less than a year after the first non-erotic motion picture screening. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

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CRACKED Biden was born closer to Lincoln's inauguration than his own. Lincoln's second inauguration was on March 4, 1865, only 77 years before Biden's November 20, 1942, birthday. Biden was 78 on his inauguration. — Source

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CRACKED Homo sapiens were alive at the same time as hobbits. Homo floresiensis were 3 feet 7 inches ancient humans who lived around 100,000 to 50,000 years ago in Indonesia. Homo sapiens emerged 300,000 years ago in Africa. — Source

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CRACKED The Starry Night was painted the same year Nintendo was founded CARD CO BE T Van Gogh painted his most famous painting in 1889, the same year Fusajiro Yamauchi started producing playing cards under the Nintendo name. — Source

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CRACKED Pablo Picasso died the same year Pink Floyd's The Dark Side of the Moon was released It's possible (but highly improbably) that the Cubist painter could have gone to a laser light show since he lived until 1973. — Source

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CRACKED The United States had 14 presidents during Queen Elizabeth's reign The Queen met with 13 of the sitting Presidents, starting with President Harry Truman. (But, for an unknown reason, didn't meet with Lyndon Johnson.) — Source

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CRACKED Emmett Till was born the same year as Bernie Sanders. Sharing a birth year with Martha Stewart and Bob Dylan as well, Till could still be alive today if he wasn't brutally murdered at 14 years old. — Source

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CRACKED One of the last known children of an enslaved person died in 2022. Daniel Smith died in October 2022 at 90 years old. His father, Abram Smith, was born into bondage during the American Civil War in Virginia. — Source

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CRACKED Woolly mammoths were alive when Egyptians built the pyramids. The last known group of woolly mammoths survived until 1650 B.C, about a thousand years after the Pyramids of Giza were built. — Source

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CRACKED President John Tyler (born in 1790) has a living grandchild. In the office between 1841-1845, the tenth president had children in his 60s. His son had a kid at age 75. As of publication, that grandchild, Harrison Ruffin Tyler, is 93 years old. — Source

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CRACKED Peter Capaldi was 5 years old when Doctor Who first aired. Capaldi was born in April 1958. Не would go on to play the 12th incarnation of the Doctor in 2013, at 55 years old. — Source

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