"2 empires, The Roman Empire and The Ottoman Empire, spanned the entire gap from Jesus to Babe Ruth."
"William Shakespeare and Pocahontas were alive at the same time."
"Prisoners began to arrive to Auschwitz a few days after McDonald’s was founded."
"The last surviving witness to the Lincoln assassination appeared on the TV game show *I’ve Got a Secret* several weeks before his death in 1954."
"The first episode of Doctor Who aired the day after Kennedy was assassinated."
"Pablo Picasso died the same year Pink Floyd’s “Dark Side Of The Moon” was released."
"Humans and Dodo birds coexisted up until the 1600s "
"The last WW1 veteran lived long enough to see the release of Minecraft."
"If you were born before January 7, 1989, you existed at the same time as Emperor Hirohito."
"Galileo Galilei could have taught at Harvard."
"Cleopatra, Julius Caesar and Marc Antony all died roughly 30 years before the birth of Christ. Egypt was just as alluring and fascinating to the Ptolomies as it is to us now."
"The Titanic maiden voyage happened the same year as MDMA was created."
"The Jonestown Massacre and the airing of The Star Wars Holiday Special happened within the same 48 hours."
"Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Thomas Edison, John Philip Sousa, and Clint Eastwood were all alive at the same time."
"The Marquis de Lafayette (from the American Revolutionary War and the Hamilton musical) lived long enough to have seen the first 3D motion picture. (Stereoscopy was invented a year before his death.)"
"The fax machine was invented the same year that Victoria, British Columbia was established as a trading post."
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And both went down well!
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