25 intriguing time-related facts (25 Photos)
- James Lipton is 86 years old!
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- Macaulay Culkin is the same age as Ryan Gosling
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- Adele is only one year older than Taylor Swift
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- Samuel L. Jackson is 64 years old
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- Demetri Martin is 40 years old
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- Will Smith is now older than Uncle Phil was at the start of ‘The Fresh Prince’
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- A “moment” was actually a medieval unit of time that equaled 90 seconds
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- And being gone in a “jiffy” means roughly 1/100 of a second
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- The Ottoman Empire still existed the last time the Chicago Cubs won a world series
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- Between the time it was discovered and the time it was unclassified as a planet, Pluto did not even complete one revolution around the sun
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- The Great Pyramid was built circa 2560 B.C…..
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- ….and Cleopatra lived 69 B.C. to 30 B.C……
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- …..which means Cleopatra lived closer to the moon landing than she did to the building of the Great Pyramid.
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- Speaking of pyramids, they were as old to the Romans as the Romans are to us
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- The difference in time between a Tyrannosaurus Rex and a Stegosaurus is greater than the difference in time between the T-Rex and now.
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- In 1903 the Wright brothers flew for the first time…..
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- ….38 years later, in 1941, the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor….
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- …..and 28 years later WE LANDED ON THE MOON
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- If the life of the earth were compressed into 24 hours, humans would appear just a minute before midnight
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