Historical facts that will make you take a different look at the concept of time

When you start studying history at school, it seems that the construction of the pyramids and Cleopatra were a very long time ago and at about the same time. The human mind is not able to feel such a large time period. But it turns out that Cleopatra is almost our contemporary in comparison with the pyramids. And Coca-Cola is not much younger than the state of Italy. These and other brain-blowing historical facts will make you take a completely new look at the concept of time.

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Strictly speaking, the very first fax devices appeared even earlier, but a real working fax for commercial tasks first started working in 1865 and connected Paris and Lyon. It was an electromechanical device. The first membrane telephone was demonstrated by Thomas Watson and Alexander Bell only in 1875.

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The great comedian Charlie Chaplin died in 1977. At the same time, the Apple computer manufacturing company was founded.

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The year of foundation of one of the most prestigious higher educational institutions in the world is 1636. The English scientist Isaac Newton published his fundamental work Principia Mathematica, in which he described the laws of motion and the law of universal gravitation, in 1687 — almost half a century after the foundation of Harvard.

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Nintendo was founded in Japan on September 23, 1889, and it began with the release of cards for the game"Hanafuda". Meanwhile, the construction of the Eiffel Tower, which will become a symbol of France in the future, was being completed in Paris. Residents of London were in a panic, frightened by reports about one of the most famous maniacs in history — Jack the Ripper.

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The Bristlecone pines are considered the oldest trees in the world. In the White Mountains in California, a tree of this variety was discovered, whose age reaches 4000 years, and recently another one was discovered, which is as much as 5000 years old. Scientists believe that the extinction of mammoths occurred about 4,000 years ago.

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It would seem: what could be simpler than a bicycle? It feels like everyone has been using it for centuries. Nevertheless, the prototype of this vehicle was patented only in 1818, while the first steam locomotive was presented in 1797. The difference is 21 years.

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The photo shows a map of Vienna about those years. Surprisingly, all these people could really cross paths on the veranda of one of the cafes in the Austrian capital. Moreover, Trotsky and Hitler regularly went to Café Central, and very close was Sigmund Freud's favorite institution — Café Landtmann. Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin lived only an hour away from each other, so it's not surprising that they could meet.

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Archaeologists date the construction of the largest of the pyramids of Ancient Egypt, the pyramid of Cheops, to 2540 BC. Queen Cleopatra lived in 69-30 BC. The flight to the moon occurred in 1969.

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The development of science is constantly accelerating every year and with every invention. But there is also a rather small gap between the fundamental scientific events in the XX century. The first controlled flight on an airplane was made in 1903, and in 1969, humanity took its first step on the surface of the Moon.

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The Kingdom of Italy was formed in 1861, and the first Coca-Cola was able to try in 1892.