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The Great Pyramid was built cerca 2560 BC, while Cleopatra lived around 30 BC. The first Pizza Hut opened in 1958, which is about 500 years closer.

2. Every two minutes, we take as many photos as all of humanity took during the 1800s.

On the left is the first photograph ever taken (1826), View from the Window at Le Gras by French inventor Joseph Nicéphore Niépce. On the right is a cat who accidentally took a picture of itself (2013). It’s estimated that in 2014, humans will take 880 billion photos (not including cats). In fact, 10% of all the photos ever taken were taken in the past 12 months.

 3. Oxford University is older than the Aztecs.

Teaching started in Oxford as early as 1096, and by 1249, the University was officially founded. The Aztec civilization as we know it began with the founding of Tenochtitlán in 1325.

4. Will Smith is now older than Uncle Phil was at the beginning of “The Fresh Prince.”

When James Avery (Uncle Phil) started on The Fresh Prince, he was 45-years-old. Today, Will Smith is a slightly older 45.

5. In the span of 66 years, we went from taking flight to landing on the moon.

In 1903 the Wright brothers successfully flew a plane for a whopping 59 seconds. 38 years later, in 1941, the Japanese used flight to bomb Pearl Harbor. Only 28 years after that, Apollo 11 landed on the moon in 1969.

6. There is more processing power in a TI-83 calculator than in the computer that landed Apollo 11 on the moon.

The guidance computer from the Apollo 11 mission ran at 1.024 MHz, about 1/6th of the processing power of a TI-83 calculator. One is used by students to play Tetris, the other took humans to the moon.

 7. The oldest living person’s birth is closer to the signing of the Constitution than present day.

Misao Okawa was born in 1898, an astonishing 116 years ago. The Constitution was signed in 1787, which makes her life 4 years closer to the historic Philadelphia convention than to today

8. John Tyler, America’s 10th President, has two living grandchildren.

John Tyler served from 1841 to 1845, a full 20 years before Abraham Lincoln. He had a son, Lyon, at age 63. Lyon would have Lyon Jr. and Harrison at 71 and 75, respectively. Both are still alive today and in their 80’s.

9. The first pyramids were built while the woolly mammoth was still alive.

 While most mammoths died out long before civilizations arose, a small populations survived until 1650 BC. By that point, Egypt was halfway through its empire, and the Giza Pyramids were already 1000 years old.

10. The fax machine was invented the same year people were traveling the Oregon Trail.

The first fax machine was developed by Alexander Bain in 1843, meanwhile The Great Migration began across America.

11. France was still executing people by guillotine when Star Wars came out.B

Star Wars premiered in theaters in May 1977. The last execution by guillotine took place September 10th of the same year.

12. Betty White is older than sliced bread.

Otto Frederick Rohwedder invented sliced bread in 1928, while Betty White was born in 1922. Bread had existed prior, just not in the pre-sliced form.

13. This is what the difference in Olympic Gold looks like across 56 years of women’s vault.

On the left, Larisa Latinya wins gold for the USSR in 1956. On the right, McKayla Maroney wins gold for the US in 2012.

14. Everything in this 1991 RadioShack ad exists in a single smartphone.

Gordon Moore, co-founder of Intel, stated that over the history of computing, the number of transistors on circuits doubles approximately every two years. Moore’s Law has held true for over 40 years and successfully predicted our incredible advancement in mobile technology.

15. When Warner Brothers formed, the Ottoman Empire was still alive.

Harry, Albert, Sam, and Jack Warner opened their first theater, the Cascade, in New Castle, Pennsylvania in 1903. Meanwhile, the Ottoman Empire spanned from 1299 to 1923, when Turkey became an independent nation.

16. Harvard University was founded before calculus was derived.

Harvard is the oldest higher education institution in the US, founded in 1636.  Calculus wasn’t derived until later in the 17th century, with the work of Gottfried Leibniz and Isaac Newton.

17. The last time the Chicago Cubs won a World Series, women were not allowed to vote.

The infamous cold streak by the Chicago Cubs baseball team extends back to 1908, when they won their second World Series. Women in the US acquired the vote in 1920.

18. Humans never fully experience the “present” – we’re always living in the past.

Every human being is living at least 80 milliseconds in the past. David Eagleman believes that our consciousness lags behind actual events and that when you think an event occurs, it has already happened before your brain has a chance to create a cohesive picture of the world.

19. There was more time between the Stegosaurus and the Tyrannosaurus Rex than between the Tyrannosaurus Rex and you.

The Stegosaurus lived ~150 million years ago, while the T-Rex lived only ~65 million years ago. Practically yesterday.

20. If you’re over 45, the world population has doubled in your lifetime.

In 1968, the world population was 3,557,000,000. Today, the world population is 7,217,000,000 and grows by over 200,000 daily.

21. There are whales alive today who were born before Moby Dick was written.

Some of the bowhead whales living off the coast of Alaska are well over 200 years old. They were born well before Moby Dick was written in 1851.

22. If the history of Earth were compressed to a single year, modern humans would appear on December 31st at about 11:58pm.

The human race has lived on Earth for only 0.004% of the planet’s history.

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Most people know that Franz Ferdinand’s murder was the spark that began WWI, but did you know that he almost survived?

Several attempts were made on his life that day and it was only through a series of amazing coincidences that he was finally killed.

His car broke down in front of a sandwich shop in which one of the days failed assassins was eating his lunch. Lucky for the assassin, not so much for the Arch Duke, or all of Europe.

Before the United States entered WWI German was the 2nd most spoken and written language in the country. Some states tried to legislate a ban on the German language in schools. There was widespread anti German hysteria in the United States.

During WWI, some things were renamed to represent a more patriotic lean in the United States.
Hamburgers were renamed to Salisbury steak. Frankfurters were called liberty sausages. Dachshunds became liberty dogs, and many families changed their names to sound more American.

Soldiers in the trenches of The Great War swore by their superstition. Some believed that they fought along side phantom cavalrymen and others claimed to have seen angels above the trenches.

When the war began in 1914 the armies of Europe more closely resembled that of the era of Napoleon than the mechanized armies of World War 2. Soldiers wore no metal helmets and uniforms were colorful and easy to see over distances.

The Eiffel Tower was used to intercept German radio communications. One of the intercepted messages lead to the execution of the wars most famous supposed spy, the exotic dancer known as Mata Hari.

Disease accounted for more than a third of all casualties during the war.
More than 150,000 British soldiers left the war with venereal diseases from brothels

WWI saw many inventive ideas introduced in combat. Flamethrowers and tanks were both introduced to aid trench warfare.
The first flamethrowers were developed by Germany and could fire as far as 130 feet!

The name “tank” comes from the British code word for the vehicle.

Tanks were split into 2 categories. Males, with cannons, and females armed with machine guns.

Before the invention of the gas mask soldiers would soak clothes in urine to protect their faces against chlorine gas attacks.

Animals served throughout the war. Dogs were used to deliver messages and connect telegraph wire.

More than 500,000 pigeons were used by all sides. They would trained to deliver messages between the front lines and company headquarters.

Horses were used to carry equipment, ride into battle, and when killed, the fat from their bodies would be used to make explosives. The British Army used more than 875,000 horses during the war.

The most decorated American soldier of the war was Corporal Alvin C. York. He was awarded the Medal of Honor leading an attack on a German machine gun nest. He captured 132 German soldier in the attack. He even had a movie made based on his story, called Sergeant York

JRR Tolkien and Winnie the Pooh creator A.A. Milne both served during the war.

In England groups of men could enlist together and create ”Pals Battalions” made up of friends and men from the same area. While good for camaraderie, one poor battle could devastate an entire county.

Great Britain and Germany boasted the two largest and most powerful Navy’s in the world but very few sea battles were fought. Both sides postured their forces to defend against the others assault while neither side attacked in fear of losing too many ships to repel a counter attack.

Fear of U-boat attacks were another reason for the sparing use of the British Navy. German U-boats were overwhelmingly effective but had to choose their targets carefully to avoid international outrage.

Eventually Germany began using U-boats to sink ships indiscriminately in an attempt to hurry the end of the war. This was used as the hot button issue that prompted the U.S. to enter the war.

Russia left the war unofficially in 1917 as the country revolted against the Czar. Many of the revolutionary soldiers deserted the front to join in the revolution.

In a case of unfortunate timing for Germany, their decision to utilize full submarine warfare came one month before Russia began retreating from the war. Had they waited they may have avoided the United States joining and forced an allied peace agreement.

During Christmas in 1914 and unofficial truce sprung up across the western front sporadically. Men left their trenches, exchanged gifts and food with the enemy. There was even a football match played in No Mans Land, which Germany won 3-2. Measures were taken to ensure no such truce occurred again.

There was a proposed plan by Germany to invade the United States with the help of Mexico before the United States had officially entered the war. The plan, which was sent to Mexican officials, would have Mexican armies invade the United States and keep previously lost territory at the end of the war.

France was the first country to use chemical warfare in WWI, employing tear gas. Germany was the first to use lethal chlorine gas.

“Hello Girls” were multi-lingual women who served in Europe as telephone operators for allied forces.

Though Adolph Hitler did fight in WWI, he fought for Bavaria. Not Germany as one might expect.

More than 65 million men fought for 30 countries in WWI and an estimated 6,000 men died every day.

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Get cosy: Three people can sleep in this bizarre room, which has terraced beds and all the surfaces tilted at angles to disorientate guests.

When you go to a hotel, the one thing you expect without thinking is to get a good night’s sleep. You’re certainly paying for it. Well, if that’s the case you DEFINITELY shouldn’t stay at the Propeller Island City Lodge. But if you’re looking for the most “unique” stay you’ll ever rack up on your credit card, check out these insane 31 outrageous rooms. Just don’t plan on sleeping there anytime soon.

Round and round: This circular bed is on constant rotation so you have an ever changing view as you lie back and relax.

Old favourite: One of the original rooms, guests sleep in all-blue surroundings with no decor beyond glistening mirrors on the walls and ceiling .

Sleep like the dead: If you’ve ever wondered if a coffin is comfortable, then check in to this padded room which is designed to make you feel like you’re resting in peace.

One for couples: If you don’t fancy sleeping together for the night, you can use the pulley to lower the illuminated barrier between the bed halves.

Ever wondered what it’s like to live in a kaleidoscope? This room is covered entirely with mirrors and the hotel website warns: “caution, very sexy!”

There’s something creep about this room. Just can’t put my thumb on it.

Imagine never getting any sleep because you think someone’s watching you. Except it’s actually happening.

Well there’s a mirror above the bed…

If you’re looking for a “normal” room, this is probably it.

For some reason I’d never stop looking in the mirror. Amazing idea.

Escape!

My dog NEEDS this.

Whoa, this is for the more adventurous among us. Got the guts?

Well I couldn’t fit on it, but it’s made to get cozy on.

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Dubbed “Bodyscapes,” the series turns the ridges, hills and valleys of one or more human bodies into strange and surreal landscape photos.

If I asked you to describe a desert, perhaps the blowing sands of the Sahara, you’d picture a desolate place dry and filled with countless dunes. Perhaps you’d think that nothing could be alive there. Now if I asked you to describe the human body, especially the skin, dry,dusty and barren are the last thing you’d think of right? Well that’s what I thought until I saw these amazing landscape photos created by Carl Warner, which play subtle tricks on our eyes, and make us reimagine the wonder that is the human body.

“[The project] plays on the sense of space in which we dwell,” writes Warner.

“The external view of ourselves therefore becomes a more abstract and perhaps more intimate reflection of our inner being when viewed as a landscape or given a sense of place.”

Each photo is named based on the body parts it is composed of, and some are more difficult to make look landscape-like than others.

Check out this “Desert of Sleeping Men.”

Wow, I can’t believe how well Carl tricked my eyes, even when I knew the photos were actually composed of people! Truly amazing.

If you want to see more of Warner’s work with strange landscapes, or even purchase some prints for yourself,  be sure head over to his website. His pieces are truly unique, and they’ll be sure to be an interesting converation piece at your next party!

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Collection of nice illusions and mind blowing stuff.

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