A poster on Reddit asks: What are two events that took place in the same time in history but don’t seem like they would have?
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.
Pablo Picasso died the year Pink Floyd released “Dark Side of the Moon” (1973)
Prisoners began to arrive to Auschwitz a few days after Mc'Donalds was founded.
Coca-Cola is only 31 years younger than Italy.
Marilyn Monroe and Queen Elizabeth II were born in the same year.
The Ottoman empire still existed the last time the Chicago Cubs won the World Series.
WEIRD
nintendo is 3 years older than coca cola