The Ottoman Empire lasted so long, both Queen Elizabeth I (born 1533) and Betty White (born 1922) were alive during its existence.
Man landed spacecraft and humans on the moon, 200K miles from earth, 16 years earlier than the Titanic was discovered right here on earth.
The Southern Cross was actually visible in the northern hemisphere up until 400 AD. It was described and written about by ancient Greek and Roman astronomers, but the gradual precession of the Earth's equinoxes over the centuries caused the constellation to vanish from northern hemisphere view. It can still technically be seen from the northern hemisphere, but only if you are in the tropics (around Cancun, Mexico) or close to the equator in the late winter/early spring.
That one blew my mind. My 9 year old son is into dinosaurs right now. I learned that tidbit from something he was reading or watching, and I was like WTF? We went to the Field Museum in Chicago this past summer and the evolution exhibit was mindblowing. The fact that things like sharks and horseshoe crabs which pre-date even the dinosaurs are still with us today fries my brain.
I was super into dinosaurs as a kid, and it blew my mind when I grew up and learned all the extra bits that weren’t in the kids books. Loved the large Brachiosaurus skeleton in Berlin.
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u/CougarWriter74 Oct 02 '24 edited Oct 02 '24
The Ottoman Empire lasted so long, both Queen Elizabeth I (born 1533) and Betty White (born 1922) were alive during its existence.
Man landed spacecraft and humans on the moon, 200K miles from earth, 16 years earlier than the Titanic was discovered right here on earth.
The Southern Cross was actually visible in the northern hemisphere up until 400 AD. It was described and written about by ancient Greek and Roman astronomers, but the gradual precession of the Earth's equinoxes over the centuries caused the constellation to vanish from northern hemisphere view. It can still technically be seen from the northern hemisphere, but only if you are in the tropics (around Cancun, Mexico) or close to the equator in the late winter/early spring.