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Prior to their win in 2016, the Chicago Cubs hadn’t won a world series since before the fall of the Ottoman Empire.
George Washington’s Continental Army had a vaccine mandate.
Heroin was first synthesized in 1874. It’s older than 13 US states. Sitting Bull and heroin existed at the same time. In 1898 it was sold by Bayer as a recreational drug under the brand name Heroin. Frederick Nietzsche was around for the heroin trade.
Columbus’ contact resulted in a 92% loss of population in North, Central, and South America. Mexico City area only just re-reached its pre-contact population estimate in the 1960s.
“1491” is a good read.
follow it up with “Guns, Germs, and Steel”
The sheer amount of people, knowledge, and culture lost in the Americas due to European invasion and their treatment of the native peoples makes me so sad.
WWi’s end and WWII’s start were 21 years apart. This is not what it seemed like to me at all, I thought they were like 8 years apart or something.
it always seemed to be like they were further. 21 years between the 2 most brutal wars is insane.
Danny Trejo and Anne Frank were alive at the same time.
Fuck off no way
Edit: 81 YEARS OLD!?!?
Seems a lot of people don’t know what “time perspective” means.
- John Tyler, 10th president of the US (1790-1862), had a grandson, Harrison Ruffin Tyler (Nov, 1928) who just recently died in May of 2025.
- The last person born in the 1800’s was Emma Morano, born 11/29/1899 Civiasco, Italy. Died 04/15/2017 in Verbania, Italy. So most people reading this had a chance to speak to someone born in 1899.
- All of Napoleon Bonaparte’s 4 brothers lived into the age of photography (1826) and had their photo taken with a camera. His youngest brother Jérôme sat for many photo sessions. Only one of his 3 sisters, Caroline, lived into the era but never had a photo taken. Napoleon Bonaparte (08/15/1769 - 05/05/1821), didn’t live into the age of photography.
- Humans are the only animals capable of appreciating art. Yes, chimps and elephants can make their own art, but they have no interest in it after they’re done with it.
Did 1899 skip December for some reason?
Edit: Or do you mean the last surviving person, or longest-lived person, born in the 1800’s?
Every 1899 years there’s a leap month
I’ve personally seen behavior from cats and bears that appear to contradict your last statement but only anecdotal.
Last statement feels presumptuous
The Appalachian Mountains are older than trees, dinosaurs, the Atlantic Ocean, and Pangea
Life is old there, older than the trees
Younger than the mountains, growin’ like a breeze
country road… … take me home…
Older than bones…
Pretty sure sharks are older than trees too
And almost certainly the oldest mountains in the solar system
There are older mountain ranges on earth than the Appalachians. The oldest on earth are likely the Barberton Mountains coming in at a whopping 3.4 billion years old.
The song Black Velvet is actually a tribute to Elvis
Hildegard von Bingen was a nun in medieval times that used nature to heal. We are still studying and rework her book on natural plants and how to heal with them. It seems like some plants dont exist anymore
There’s a bardcore artist that goes by Hildegard von Blingin. Apparently the OG von Bingen was also something of a notable musician.
Crikey I wouldn’t have thoughts plants would have gone extinct so easy! interesting fact
Have you heard about the plant Siphilim? Apparently it was fairly prevalent and very highly valued in ancient times, but was lost by the middle ages.
Never heard of it, that’s one for googling thanks
Could be that many medicinal plants are considered weeds or have very specific habitats that have been built over.
Isaac Newton was the Master of the Mint. Back then, issues with counterfeiting or diluting the coinage was an issue. He personally went in disguise to bars to track down these counterfeiters. Who were then executed.
He is also the inventor of all the ridges around the edge of coins, because at the time it made coins almost impossible to forge.
Land of the free lol
yes. Isaac Newton, the famous American
Britain’s Royal Mint of course. The US didn’t exist in the 17ᵗʰ century.
Shit, you’re right. I was conflating Isaac Newton with the kite-zappy guy with the fart fetish. I’ll leave the original post unedited as a testament to my biggotry.
Custer’s Last Stand happened while the Brooklyn Bridge was being built.
Construction for the bridge occured between 1869-1883.
Custers last stand happened 1876.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooklyn_Bridge?wprov=sfla1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Little_Bighorn?wprov=sfla1
Some other stuff: Mamoths were still alive when the Pyramids were being built.
the funny thing about Custer is that he was warned about the ambush but his hubris was just too much
also it is rumored among those that have heard direct stories from people that were there was that it was a woman that made the killing blow on him and they probably scalped and then dismembered him and most of his men, and thats why nobody found him
Europeans used to make a drink out of Egyptian mummies.
Here’s some more information on it:
https://historycanthide.substack.com/p/europeans-ate-egyptian-mummies-for
AI could never write such a thing
Also paint
How else do you cure a cough?
There’s a sar-cough-agus joke in here somewhere.
sarcophagus in your œsophagus… hmmm… so egyptians did master deepthroating
there actually is a reference to “Kodak pictures” in Dracula
Read it 3 times and that never clicked! Nice one.
Here’s some wild river history for you:
The great lakes are super big, have huge flow rates, Superior is famously super deep since it’s a continental-rift lake that was widened by glacial retreat … But they only formed like 14,000 years ago when the glaciers retreated…
The river Tyne in England is 30 million years old, just when Antarctica was separating from Australia and South America.
The river Thames is 58 million years old, that’s just after the meteor that wiped out the dinosaurs.
The Rhine is at least 240 million years old … From the Triassic era if not earlier.
And then there’s 3 rivers in Appalachia that are ~ 320 million years old… The French Broad river, the Susquehanna river, and (ironically) the New river. They’ve been continuously flowing since the carboniferous period, literally when Pangea first started forming and before any bacteria or enzymes could break down trees (which eventually compacted and became all the coal in the mountains that formed alongside them).
Funfact regarding the New River:
The Cartographers charting the river had it marked by the direction it flows, NE-W, eventually this just stuck as the name.
The New river also formed a beautiful gorge where we humans built an awesome bridge and some scenic overlooks. If you find yourself driving through that southern region of WV, it is worth a detour!
https://www.nps.gov/neri/planyourvisit/nrgbridge.htm
It’s a national park now too!
🎵Almost Heaven, West Virginia
Blue Ridge Mountains, Shenandoah River
Life is old there, older than the trees
Younger than the mountains, growin’ like a breeze🎶
Crazy those lyrics are literal facts. Also, you win the thread.
Life is old there, older than the trees
Younger than the mountains, growin’ like a breeze
The first part is correct, but technically both the river and life in that area predate the mountains, and all of them predate the continent by hundreds of millions of years, which is wild in its own right.
Ok but he said Susquehanna River. Not Shenandoah.
Great song though.
He sings Shenandoah.
https://genius.com/John-denver-take-me-home-country-roads-lyrics
Edit: Even better source:
Sorry you’re confused. We are referencing this comment in which masterspace mentions the Susquehanna River. Not the Shenandoah River. Somehow it made shalafi excited and his brain substituted Susquehanna for Shenandoah which reminded him of the John Denver song, which yes is a lovely song, I belt it out loud every time I drive alone through West Virginia.
TIL I’ve shot rapids in a 320m year old body of water
