16 Facts That Will Warp Your Sense of Time

This perspective-warping episode of The List Show will make you reassess time. You'll learn about how Cleopatra is more modern than you may think, how relatively recent the guillotine is, and that your favorite dinosaur species probably weren't friends.

Join host Erin McCarthy as she shares facts that will warp your sense of time and perhaps make you feel a little old. Sorry.

[mattf]

I'm in my 40s and I currently work with an 18 year old who's discovered grunge music and other artists from the 90s. We discuss that time a lot and I show him lesser known bands he may not have heard of. I never really stop to think about how it's just like when someone would play me Pink Floyd or Hendrix as a teenager.

[davemitchell]

Just to show you how time goes by, I actually have had a conversation with someone who lived during the civil war. I am 75 years old and when I was 13 (1960), I spoke with a friend of my grandma's, a lady who was 101 (born in 1859). She told me how she (at age 6) remembered her father returning from the war in 1865. When I told that to a friend recently, my friend said she found it amazing.

[rajackson]

As a African-American45 year old. I remember my Uncle who came Back from South Africa in 1982. Telling me about a “Temporary White Man” card he had in South Africa! He also made me watch Casablanca “There some parts of Brooklyn I recommend you shouldn’t walk through” I wanted to be Humphrey Bogart in Star Wars! 🤣😂🤣🤷🏾‍♂️✌🏿🇺🇸

[Eki]

The guillotine thing came up in pub trivia last night just after I’d watched this video. I answered so quickly the host was there “there’s no way y’all could be cheating”.

[OneColdMonkey]

One that got me a while back is that That 70s Show aired on TV closer to the time the show took place than to today.

[eifelitorn]

One of my all time favourites in phobias: is the fear of long words.

[route]

This should be a semi normal aspect of history class to rope together the difficulty of studimying history and for extra context.

[navIAMy]

Love the Cosmic Calendar 6:15
This is such a cool way to give perspective ❤

[knate]

You can't go wrong with triskaidekaphobia, or the fear of the number 13. A perfect phobia for this spooky season... Also apparently a magic the gathering card for some reason?

[petersetlak]

Something that put time into perspective for me last year after Betty White died was this:

Betty White was born in 1922 and was older than both Martin Luther King Jr. and Anne Frank who were both born the same year of 1929.

Also…

If you search for it you can find an interview recorded on audio cassette of a former slave of the US South.

The Protestant Movement in Europe happened after Columbus sailed to the Americas.

The Battle of Little Big Horn (aka, Custer’s Last Stand) happened 15 years after the American Civil War.

Some things we think were “long ago” really aren’t…

[dubya]

In case no one has said it…

Anatidaephobia: the irrational fear that somewhere, a duck is watching you

Originally coined as a joke by Gary Larson in The Far Side comic, it’s apparently gained some legitimate traction

[emmanuelfeltaous]

No lie. I shed a tear. I loved the magazine years ago and then forgot about it. Thanks a thousand times over.

[AcrophobicPixie]

As a person with a phobia in my user name: It's not an uncommon phobia, but people often get it mistaken for agoraphobia or arachnophobia because of sight reading, versus taking the whole word in. But no, fear of heights. Same root as acrobat. I've gotten stuck on step stools, just a few inches off the ground.

[jovanweismiller]

I was born in 1947. In the 90s, I introduced my son, born in 1983, to early Skynyrd. He was amazed that the old man knew about such music. LOL!

[tommccutchan]

A few other time warp facts: The can opener was not invented until decades after canning was developed. The first elevator shaft was installed in a building before the first safety elevator invented. Between the time Pluto was discovered and it being demoted to a sub planet, it did not complete a full transit around the sun.

[jaew]

My great-grandmother was born a citizen of the Ottoman Empire and passed away in New York during the Reagan administration. You’re right about the Ottoman Empire being a time warp 😅

[conspiracyhaven]

I loved this episode. Please do more like it. Facts are awesome.

[Sgt-Gravy]

I started feeling old when my high school classmates's kids started graduating...

[christigmc]

My husband was a middle school music teacher between 2012 and 2017. During an Instrument Petting Zoo a kid wanted to try the saxophone. I threw in some trivia asking which former US president plays the saxophone. I later gave the answer of Clinton. I explained how he was on the Arsenio Hall Show playing it and how it helped his campaign. I got a lot of blank stares of “who’s Bill?” “Who’s Arsenio Hall?” I explained that the Arsenio Hall show was my version of Ellen way back when. But boy did I feel old.
I was born in the mid 80s during the Reagan administration. I remember Bush Sr. being president. But the 1992 election where Clinton won was the first election I remember.

A few years ago I was at a pet adoption event when the topic of raising cats and dogs together came up. I joked about how during the Clinton administration he had an easier time with the peace process in the Middle East than he had with his dog and cat. I got some blank stares. Everyone I was talking to was born in the late 90s. I’m feeling old.

[Hydrowarriornash]

Great video to be uploaded on my birthday