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They benefit from high altitude, a culture which values good runners and an unusually high percentage of their muscle mass is posture muscle (endurance) rather than twitch (strength). Funnily on the west coast of Africa (the ultimate origin of many Jamaicans) the twitch/posture ratio is reversed, which makes for very good sprinters and other sports requiring explosive power.
When Jesus was alive, the Stonehenge was already a ruin. It's sometimes hard to grasp where everything is in relation to each other on the historical timeline
Yup. Cleopatra lived 500 years closer to the Apollo Moon Landings (1999 years after her death in 30BC) than the building of the Great Pyramid at Giza (2511 years before her birth in 69BC). And as for what 500 years mean, 500 years ago Martin Luther had just nailed his theses to the door, Ferdinand Magellan was setting of to find a better route to the East Indies, Hernán Cortés was just starting his conquest of Mexico and the same guy that would have ruled him in Spain would have ruled over my birth town in Transylvania as well as half of Italy, the Netherlands, Austria, Hungary, bits of what are now the Czech Republic and Slovakia as well as other assorted bits of Germany.
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Cleopatra lived closer to the invention of the iPhone than the building of the pyramids.
That's one of my favourite facts showing just how deep time is
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Also......There was more time between the Stegosaurus and the Tyrannosaurus Rex than between the Tyrannosaurus Rex and you.
But only on small islands north of Russia, I believe. And a pygmy species at that.
I'm kinda surprised how many down votes this has got. Which etiquette rule did I break?
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I love that you are alle throwing these mindblown facts in comments! Thanx
The birth of Cleopatra was closer to the making of the first pizza hut then to the building of the Pyramids
THIS IS NOT TRUE. Any expert sources indicate that the pyramids were put up about 5000 years ago, and mammoths died out 10,000 years ago. This is like saying that Jesus rode dinosaurs...
Wrangel island Mammoths are estimated to have died 4000 years ago (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-36945909) . The Pyramid was built 2580-2560 BC estimated. So it is accurate though only for the Wrangel Mammoth population, the others are estimated to have died some 5000 years previously.
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Snakes talked in the Bible. We’re talking about actual events, not mythology.
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Australia's diameter is 600km wider than the moon's. The moon sits at 3400km in diameter, while Australia's diameter from east to west is almost 4000km.
I once saw a document about sloths. One of them fell in the water, where an aligator was. But He manage to swim away *mindblow*!!!!
If Prince the artist had been made a prince in a tribe, would his title then be “Prince Prince”?
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Thank you for your feedback - we take fact checking very seriously but due to the amount of user submissions, we cannot guarantee they're error-free. This post was created by a community member “the book of everyone” and it seems they got a couple of things wrong. One incorrect fact was removed from the list and another was clarified with additional information. If you notice anything more, let us know - we will update the post.
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Oh I think the Roman days one is gone. Or maybe I didn't look properly lol now I'm gna check again :D
In other words, unlike modern times where one day is 24 hours, a winter day would require fewer hours from beginning to end than a summer day. This is because a day started at dawn and ended at dusk
Thank you for your feedback - we take fact checking very seriously but due to the amount of user submissions, we cannot guarantee they're error-free. This post was created by a community member “the book of everyone” and it seems they got a couple of things wrong. One incorrect fact was removed from the list and another was clarified with additional information. If you notice anything more, let us know - we will update the post.
Load More Replies... Thank you for your feedback - we take fact checking very seriously but due to the amount of user submissions, we cannot guarantee they're error-free. This post was created by a community member “the book of everyone” and it seems they got a couple of things wrong. One incorrect fact was removed from the list and another was clarified with additional information. If you notice anything more, let us know - we will update the post.
Load More Replies... Oh I think the Roman days one is gone. Or maybe I didn't look properly lol now I'm gna check again :D
In other words, unlike modern times where one day is 24 hours, a winter day would require fewer hours from beginning to end than a summer day. This is because a day started at dawn and ended at dusk
