What are 10 historical facts that would confuse anyone?

 

• Queen Elizabeth II and Marilyn Monroe were both born in 1926. They met only once when they were thirty years old.

• The University of Oxford is older than the Aztec Empire: it was founded in 1096, three centuries before the Aztec Empire (1428).

• Harriet the tortoise lived for 176 years and was long believed to be one of the three brought back by Darwin from the Galapagos in 1853.

• Van Gogh painted "Starry Night" in the same year the Eiffel Tower was constructed, which is 1889.

• The Colosseum was completed in 80 AD, around the same time the Gospel of Luke and the Acts of the Apostles were written.

• Charlie Chaplin died in 1977, the same year Apple Computer was founded.

• In 1868, you could take the London Underground to witness the last public execution in the UK.

• George Washington died in 1799. The first dinosaur fossils were discovered in 1824. Washington never knew dinosaurs existed.

• In 1940, the first prisoners arrived at Auschwitz. Simultaneously, the first McDonald's restaurant was opened.

• Woolly mammoths were still alive while the Egyptians were building the pyramids (around 2660 BC).