Facts That Will Mess With Your Perception of Time

[noblinkreal]

Guy Lombardo, who counted the numbers of the new years ball drop in the 50’s, 60’s, and 70’s, is older than the first airplane and even windshield wipers.

[HannibalHamlin]

Everyone gangster until you realize Rosa Parks could’ve played world of Warcraft if she wanted to

[abrahamlincoln]

The Oldest Person on Earth right now could've talked to somebody who talked to George Washington.

[andywinslow]

Here's a personal one. I'm 34. I was born closer to Irving Berlin; the composer of White Christmas than to Margo Robbie.

[MOET]

One thing that I couldn't believe was when I realised that Doors movie which still seemed fairly new was closer to Jim Morrison's death than now and that was 10 years ago

[uptdogg]

But the last person to receive a civil war army pension just died recently. The wives could collect the pension of the soldier. (Very old men, marrying young women became common during the depression I believe) but if they had a disabled child, the child could receive that pension.

[JamesMartin-jrvv]

The last emperor of China was still alive when Vin Diesel was born.

[seansmith]

Crazy how dying young makes you forever Perceived as of a different generation to those now old

[robelkton]

The last veteran of the Crimean War, a tortoise named Timothy, died in 2004 at around 150 years old

[CarolynDestruction]

Jim Morrison died in 1971
Pro wrestler John Morrison was born in 1979 who looks exactly like Jim

[drollins]

these Facts hit different after an edible..

[JoseMorales-lwnt]

The last generation of men and women to be officially born as citizens of The Roman Empire would have lived long enough to hear about Christopher Columbus' sea voyage to The New World!
Even crazier fact:
The original World Trade Center officially existed for 28 full years. From the Spring of 1973 to the Spring of 2001.
The year 2030 will mark the 28th birthday of everyone born in 2002, the first year after the Twin Towers were destroyed. There will soon be a generation of adults to have existed the same amount of years as the Twin Towers, without having the opportunity of visiting them!

[gilthenrill]

Stephen Hillenburg (Creator of spongebob squarepants) was born the same year as princess Diana.

[tjwindsor]

Ann Frank and Martin Luther King being born in the same year is really not that hard to believe when you consider that the end of ww2 and the start of the civil rights movement are only 9 years apart.

[aurei]

How about this one:
The kid who played Laruso in Karate kid 3 is older than the guy who played Terry Silver.

[darkshaed]

NY Times: Million years til we fly
Wright Bros: Hold my beer

[Toasty-zqim]

Here's. A crazy One I was born 17 days before Rosa Parks Died and Pluto Was still a planet when I Was born they will be saying that hopefully when I'm 98 years old

[paulthomson]

Alfred Wagner proposed tectonic theory in the 1920s...so your wrong about NASA exploring space before the theory had emerged.

[VenomousSoup]

Sharks have also been around longer than trees

[nathanbetner]

The last titanic survivor could have owned an iphone.