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[–] 92 points 1 year ago (4 children)

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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  • [–] 31 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Someone gets a fax and the scene stays period accurate

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  • [–] 63 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    pharaohs and mammoths existed at the same time

    This one got me. I always thought mammoths died out before major civilizations.

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  • [–] 50 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    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!"

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  • [–] 47 points 1 year ago

    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.

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  • [–] 32 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    These are indeed fun facts

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    And they're not factoids because definitionally a factoid resembles a fact but isn't!

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    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.

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  • [–] 32 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Nintendo existed before the fall of the Ottoman empire.

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  • [–] 22 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    Wait, Pocahontas was real?!

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    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?

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago

    Picasso passed away in the 70s.

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Pocahontas was a child sex slave!

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    How long would it take for a person to travel from Greece to China in the 5th century BCE?

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago

    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.

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  • [–] -1 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Last fact is wrong. Aztlan is very ancient.

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