1. When the pyramids were being built, there were still Woolly Mammoths
2. The last use of the guillotine was in France. The same year StarWars came out (1977)
3. The Inauguration of the Eiffel Tower, and the wall street journal, Starry Night, Coca-cola, Nintendo, the birth of Adolf Hitler, and Thomas Midgley Jr. all began/happened in the same year.
4. Oxford University was over 300 years old when the Aztec empire was founded.
5. There were no classes in calculus in Oxford's curriculum for the first six hundred years because calculus hadn't been discovered yet.
6. Nintendo was founded in 1889. Jack the Ripper was on the loose in 1888.
7. Charles Darwin and Abraham Lincoln were born on the exact same day - February 12, 1809.
8. John Quincy Adams knew both Washington and Lincoln
9. Prisoners began to arrive in Auschwitz a few days after Mc'Donalds was founded.
10. Coca-Cola is only 31 years younger than Italy.
11. The first wagon train of the Oregon trail heads out the same year the fax machine is invented.
12. Spain was still a fascist dictatorship when Microsoft was founded
13. Shakespeare was still alive when the British began colonizing America.
14. Pablo Picasso died the year Pink Floyd released "Dark Side of the Moon" (1973)
15. The pyramids of Giza were as old to the ancient Romans as the ancient Romans are to us.
16. Anne Frank and Martin Luther King Junior were born in the same year.
17. Marilyn Monroe and Queen Elizabeth II were born in the same year.
18. Galileo died the same year Newton was born.
19. Socrates was born 469 BC, 10 years after the death of Confucius.
20. Mozart was entering the height of his career at the same time that America was declaring independence as a nation.