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[–] swab148@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Abraham Lincoln could have sent a fax to a samurai

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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.

[–] tetris11@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I need some dates on this one.