The Pyramid of Cheops was built in 2560 BC. Cleopatra lived from 69 to 30 years. BC. The moon landing took place in 1969. This means that Cleopatra was closer to the lunar landing than to the construction of the pyramids.
Speaking of pyramids. For the ancient Romans, they were as ancient as these very Romans are for us.
When the first Star Wars was shown in France, people were still executed on the guillotine.
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During the time that passed from the moment Pluto was discovered until it was no longer considered a planet, he never made a full revolution around the Sun.
Russian cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev can be considered the owner of an interesting record - the longest travel in time. It is calculated that due to space flights, Krikalev is 1/48 of a second younger than if he remained on Earth all the time.
We take more pictures every two minutes than all of humanity in the 19th century.
Nintendo was founded back in 1889 when it produced cards for a Japanese game.
The time difference between when tyrannosaurs lived and when stegosaurs lived is greater than between tyrannosaurs and us.
If you dig a hole in the center of the Earth and throw a book there, it will fall for 42 minutes.
Oh yes. If we put the entire history of planet Earth in one day, then a person will appear one minute before midnight.
It is believed that our era dates back to the Nativity of Christ. The year when Christ was born was calculated in the 6th century by the Roman hegumen Dionysius the Small and made a mistake. The exact value of the error cannot be determined, but the birth took place about 4-8 years earlier than the beginning of our era.
When the Chicago Cubs baseball club became champion, the Ottoman Empire still existed.
Stephen Hawking believes that time travel is impossible. Moreover, he stated that he received experimental confirmation of this claim. On June 28, 2009, Hawking hosted a party for the time travelers, but the event was not announced on the Internet the next day. No one showed up for the meeting at the indicated time.
In 1903, the Wright brothers made their first flight. 38 years later, the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor. And after another 28 years, a man landed on the moon.
In order for UTC to more accurately correspond to mean solar time, in some years, by June 30 or December 31, the International Earth Rotation Service adds an additional second, which is also called a leap second. On such days, after 23:59:59 it starts at 23:59:60, and only then 00:00:00 of the next day.
1980 is further from us than 2049.