1. Pizza Hut was founded closer to Cleopatra's lifetime than to the era of the construction of the pyramids.
I mean, this stands to reason. We've all seen pictures of Cleopatra lounging around on some boat on the Nile, floating past the pyramids, so clearly they already existed by the time she came on the scene. Mind you, it was in a movie. Probably fucking Kubrick, faking Egyptian history just like he faked the moon landings.
2. More pictures are taken today of Justin Beiber than were taken of Justin Beiber in the whole of the 18th century.
Again, pretty obvious. Justin Beiber was only born in 2008 so not many photographs of him COULD be taken in the 18th century. Especially since photography wasn't invented until the 19th century. Duh. Sub-prime crisis notwithstanding.
3. The gap between the invention of the written word and the very first tweet was a mere 5200 years.
Around 3200 BC, the Sumerians discovered that by scratching their names into wet concrete they could eternally preserve their ill-fated teenage romances in the sidewalk outside their houses. Then in 1976 Tim Berners-Lee invented Al Gore and tweeted "Watson, come in here, I need you. LOL!!!" using his fax machine. This EXPONENTIAL development in communication was mostly funded by the military - loose lips sink ships?!
4. The average smart phone of today contains more explosive power than the Saturn V rocket than lifted Stanley Kubrick into space.
Point that browser to AddisonMashley.com - the website that lets you hook up with hot chefs suffering from endocrine disorders. Conversely, I pointed my Saturn V there and it just crashed.
5. George Washington, first president of the United States, despite being "Father Of The Nation", had no offspring.
That is, none I could track down with a cursory reading of Wikipedia. Next time I should look at the page about George Washington I guess.
6. Egypt's Sphinx was largely built with the aid of woolly mammoths.
Really, it's true. At least it should be. It would explain the nose. Or not, I suppose.
7. France was using the guillotine when Star Wars was released.
Although it was called "La Guerre Des Etoiles", which literally translated means something like, "I Played The Guitar On The Toilet", perhaps explaining the lingering popularity of the guillotine. Nevertheless, for a few months in 1977, it became fashionable among those about to be decapitated to say, "If you strike me down, I will become more powerful than you can possibly imagine."
8. My daughter is literally older than sliced bread.
The Hatchling is five. My bread was baked just last weekend. No comparison. But incredible to think about, really, when you consider that before sliced bread was invented, a sandwich could only be made by layering two whole loaves on top of each other, which was almost impossible to eat, moreso if you were only five.
9. If you were born in 1800, the world population has septunkled since your birth.
The population of Earth has increased from 1 billion to 7 billion in that time. This figure, however, doesn't take into account the precipitous crash in the world population of Tyrannosaurus Rex over the same time. Tragically, by the dawn of the 21st century, less than 1000 T-Rexes were alive in the wild.
10. There are whales alive today that have never read Moby Dick.
Despite some bowhead whales living off the coast of Alaska being up to 200 years old, and thus having had plenty of time to read Moby Dick, especially when you consider that almost none of them work full-time and in fact receive substantial government hand-outs so don't exactly have many demands on their time, researchers estimate that the majority of whales derive their at-best cursory knowledge of Moby Dick from the 1980's animated children's TV show, Star Blazers, in which the sunken WW2 battleship Yamato is converted to a starship and sent off on a desperate mission to save the earth - a fact which probably tells you more about whales than the aforementioned TV show does about Moby Dick. Let's see how they do with Yann Martel.
11. If all of this year was represented by the Mesozoic Era, Easter would have been at the end of the Triassic.
200 million years is a long time between chocolate eggs, mass-extinction or not.
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