• CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    4
    ·
    edit-2
    18 hours ago

    Woolly mammoths walked the Earth while the pyramids were being built (well, one small corner of it).

    Oxford university was teaching before the Aztec Empire began.

    I think I read through an entire AskReddit thread of these. A few I came across on my own and was surprised by: Fibbonacci of the numbers fame could have met Ghengis Khan, Benjamin Franklin could have talked to Isaac Newton, and Galileo was literally the same age as Shakespeare.