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Old 31st December 2018, 09:08 AM   #61
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Originally Posted by Squeegee Beckenheim View Post
Oh, and if we count History as a science, this one always gets a "really?" from people who don't already know it - Oxford University was a fully-fledged university compete with halls of residence nearly 100 years before the origination of Aztec society.
The original Star Wars was in theaters when France used the guillotine for the last time.

Mammoths were still alive on one island in Northern Siberia when the Pyramids were being built

The Pyramids were as ancient to the Ancient Greeks as they Ancient Greeks are to us.

Tyrannosaur lived closer to us then it did to Stegosaurus.

The fax machine was invented before the modern doorknob.

We put men on the moon before it occurred to anyone to put wheels on luggage.

Warner Brothers Studio was founded a couple of months before the fall of the Ottoman Empire.
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