leonardo da vinci was a year younger than christopher columbus.
stalin, freud, Ttto, trotsky and hitler walk into a bar……no really, it’s possible since they all lived in vienna in 1913.
aristotle tutored alexander the great.
abraham lincoln was twelve when napoleon bonaparte died.
an unusually well-traveled person in 5th century BC could have conceivably met confucius, lao tze, the buddha and socrates over the course of a seventy year life.
pharaohs and mammoths existed at the same time.
pocahontas and william shakespeare died, in the same country, less than a year apart from each other.
oxford university is older than the aztec empire.
Stuff like this really makes me wish we learned history chronologically instead of geographically. You know how cool this shit is? So much can happen all at once and we keep pretending like it doesn’t
……………………today i learned that because cancer is just your own cells going rogue, that the viral cancer dogs can spread to one another is actually a breed of dog; it is the only surviving member of its dog breed. Even though it is a viral cancer, its dna is 100% dog and the breed it came from is now extinct.
there is an asexually reproducing immortal breed of dog that behaves like a virus
a breed of dog that is a malicious disease that targets other dogs…..
Yeah canine transmissible venerial tumour is one of my favourite bits of Weird Biology because it’s like, 1: it’s basically an Immortal Dog and 2: this is a full on tetrapod vertebrate that has moved life history from barking, running animal to essentially a colonial, single/multi celled parasite. This is a mammal that has turned into an obligate parasite.
