"Neil Armstrong, the first man on the Moon, was already 17 years old by the time Orville Wright, one of the inventors of the airplane passed away. There is only a 66-year time difference between when we flew for the first time and when we landed on the Moon."

"In 1903 The New York Times ran an editorial saying that humans will not be able to fly for a million years. Just 2 months later the Wright brothers took flight."

"We figured out how to travel to the moon before we put wheels on suitcases."

"If Anne Frank was still alive, she would still have been 7 years younger than Betty White was. This also means that Martin Luther King Jr. would have been 7 years younger than Betty White as well."

"If you went back the same amount of time from today as Marty did from 1985 to 1955, you only would be traveling to 1991 [video was filmed in 2021]."

"There were 14 presidents during the reign of Queen Elizabeth and she’s met 13 of them [she didn’t meet Lyndon Johnson]."

"Karl Marx, the creator of Communism, wrote a letter to Abraham Lincoln congratulating him on his reelection."

"Harriet Tubman was still alive for another month after Rosa Parks was born."

"Pablo Picasso was actually alive more recently than Jimi Hendrix."

"Octopuses have been around for longer than the dinosaurs."

"Rosa Parks was alive long enough to witness Hurricane Katrina."

"The current oldest person living in the world today is 118 years old [119 years old in 2022]. She’s been alive longer than the time between the date the US Constitution took effect [1788] and her birth."

"Everything you see happened in the past-not the present. It takes time for the brain to process visual information so by the time you’ve actually seen something, it already happened."

"Betty White was 9 years old when Thomas Edison passed away."

"Bowhead whales can live for over 200 years which means that there are likely whales in the ocean today that were alive during the Civil War [1861–1865]."

"We didn’t know that a meteor killed the dinosaurs until 1991. That’s around the same time that the movie Home Alone was in theaters [November 16, 1990]."

"In 2020 researchers discovered fossils of green algae that existed 1 billion years ago."

"Mark Twain lived long enough to take a color photo [correction: 1908] before he passed away."

"The first episode ever of Doctor Who [November 23, 1963] was released the night after J. F. K.’s assassination [November 22, 1963]."

"The Sahara Desert was green and alive with vegetation only about 6,000 years ago [more precisely 11,000-5,000 years ago]."

"A day on Venus is longer than a year on Venus. It takes 243 Earth days for Venus to rotate once, but only 225 earth days to orbit the Sun."

"From the time Pluto was discovered to the time that Pluto lost its planet status it hadn’t even completed one orbit around the sun. it actually still hasn’t. Pluto was discovered in 1930 and downgraded in 2006 (76 years later). It takes Pluto 248 years to orbit the Sun which means that it will not have made a full orbit around the sun until 2178."

"The Eastern Roman Empire fell only 40 years before Christopher Columbus landed in the Americas. This means that plenty of people who considered themselves Romans heard of the discovery of the new world."

"Will Smith is now older than the actor who played Uncle Phil was at the time that The Fresh Prince Of Bel-Air first premiered in 1990."

"Leonardo da Vinci was a year younger than Cristopher Columbus."

"The last telegram that was ever sent was in India only 8 years ago."

"The last major Hollywood movie to be released on VHS was a History Of Violence in 2006."