You could also write a story about a cowboy and samurai drinking Coke and playing Nintendo (cards), and it would be historically accurate.
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pharaohs and mammoths existed at the same time
This one got me. I always thought mammoths died out before major civilizations.
They continued on quite long in an isolated place in northern Siberia. But since it's an isolated population of mammoths, it's kinda cheaty because this comparison sentence always makes people think "oh mammoths roamed eurasia still when the Pharaos were around!"
This is the kind of cheat sheet that someone from Futurama would use to design a "typical day for a 19th century person" animatronic edutainment display.
These are indeed fun facts
And they're not factoids because definitionally a factoid resembles a fact but isn't!
I always thought "factito" (little fact) would work better than "factoid". Or as OP would put it, "facttto".
Language has long since moved on from that definition of "factoid." The "-oid" suffix, which used to mean "like" or "resembling," has been assumed to mean ", but diminutive" (in words like "meteoroid" and "asteroid") or ", but different than what you expected" (in words like "humanoid" or "ellipsoid"). And because of that, the word "factoid" sounds like it should mean "a diminutive or unexpected fact." A snackt, if you will.
Nintendo existed before the fall of the Ottoman empire.
Wait, Pocahontas was real?!
Yeah. But 12 or so.
There were 12 Pocahontases?!
*Pocahontai
Not to be confused with Pocahentai
Seriously, I've been wracking my brain on what historical figure I've somehow missed that fits the acronym ttto. Please tell me I'm not forgetting something really obvious?
Pocahontas was a child sex slave!
How long would it take for a person to travel from Greece to China in the 5th century BCE?
By walking maybe 15 km a day on average (a full day's work for a modern subsistence farmer), around 3 years by foot. Obviously this is way easier with any amount of vehicles. Someone in a chariot could hypothetically travel something like 100km a day and make the trip in 4-6 months. This, of course, all relies on someone having a ton of resources including knowledge of roads.
Last fact is wrong. Aztlan is very ancient.
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