40 Bits Of History That People Are Shocked To Learn Happened Simultaneously

Lovely that he got to see how far his invention has come since the 1900s :)

Hah, seeing this right after getting off of a flight. Nice. :-)

My grandfather was five years old when the Wright brothers made their famous flight at Kill Devil Hills (not Kitty Hawk as is commonly believed). Sixty-six years later, he watched a man walk on the moon.

Was Alberto Santos-Dumont alive for this as well?

And Oxford is not even the oldest one. Middle Ages have so bad press...

Boggles my mind

Oxford (pats the Aztecs on the head) "Hello, newcomer!"

Better times.

1636. Harvard is 140 years older than the country that it is in.

I don’t understand math and it’s related subjects, but can someone explain to me how calculus could be invented and not discovered?

Those were the best days 😄

Damn I feel like back then it was probably easier and cheaper to get into harvard

You see that thing people building over there? That's gonna outlive us!

Dinosaurs too!!!

The length of Ancient Egypt astounds me. If it started in 1 AD, then Cleopatra would've died in like 2930. It's so crazy

Ah ha! Maybe mammoths were used in the aid of constructing the pyramids!

I actually have always associated these time periods together. I think there was enough literature from that time period (Around the World in 80 Days, A Study in Scarlett, etc.) that have portions both in England and in the US, that I always assumed they were concurrent periods.

Now I’m imagining a classy English lady visiting America falling in love with a scruffy cowboy dude. Someone write a book please

It's like all the uncivilized people from Europe came here just so they could act like barbarians. It's astonishing to read books about England during that time and then read what the Americans were doing over here during the same time period. Especially in the South.

I find it strange that I'm old enough to have been alive at the same time people born in the Victorian era were still around (though the only one I knew personally was my great grandmother, 1897 ~ 1994).

I never thought of it like that, but yeah good point, that’s bizarre ain’t it? xD

Andrew Lloyd Webber is remarkable though, isn't he.

I'm taking this with a massive grain of salt. Apparently, the only source of this information is... Andrew Lloyd Webber.

I love this musical. I love the 1973 movie best. I did not like the live remake with John Legend they put less effort into it than all the other live musicals on ABC. The music is great. It's my favorite musical besides RENT and Les Miserables. It is sad because it used to be on TV a lot now you can't find it on a single streaming network or even rent it through xfinity without getting an error code. Luckily I have the DVD

“Lloyd-Webber's awful stuff runs for years and years and years” (R.W.)

I remember talking to my great grandmother who had been around to see the first flight, first cars, radio, television, computers, moon landing, the atomic bomb, the space shuttle, two world wars, and equal rights movements all in her lifetime. Amazing amount of changes in such a relatively short period of time.

Nobody knows when Lindberg's first transcontinental (North America) flight was, because Calbraith Perry Rodgers made the first U.S. transcontinental flight in 1910. John A. Macready and Lt. Oakley G. Kelly made the first _nonstop_ transcontinental flight on May 2–3, 1923. Over the night of 14–15 June 1919, Captain John Alcock and Lieutenant Arthur Whitten Brown became the first people to fly non-stop across the Atlantic Ocean. Charles Lindberg did make the first _solo_ non-stop transatlantic flight to Paris in 1927.

By coincidence, my wife and I just visited Kennedy Space Center last week on the 54th anniversary of the first moon landing. One of the exhibits includes a reconstructed model of the lunar lander, among other related artifacts. They overshot their target landing site due to a miscalculation of speed and had to manually maneuver to the next best place because they were within 12 seconds of running out of fuel and did not have enough left to abort the landing.

How lazy are bored panda staff that they can't even be bothered to remove the last sentence which only makes sense if you see it on reddit

Did you know that the original footage of the moon landing was much clearer than what we have now? The process required to transfer the footage to a permanent medium downgraded the original copy irreversibly. We know this for sure because at least one photograph exists with a tv showing Neil Armstrong's first steps on the moon.

I don't think they still had slavery in 2013, but it's probably like one of those crazy old laws that still exist in some places due to them being overlooked. Like you can't eat cheese whilst riding backwards on a Buffalo through the town square with six dwarves on a Thursday. Or something. But I'm not an expert.