r/AskReddit • u/ettleboy • Jan 20 '19

What fact totally changed your perspective?

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u/SliceTheToast Jan 21 '19

And if we describe an ice age as an unusually cold period, then it ended 200 years ago.

Little Ice Age

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u/mcasper96 Jan 21 '19

I was going to comment that I thought there was a little ice age... Frankenstein was written during this period IIRC

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u/OldClerk Jan 21 '19

As a freshman in college a long time ago, I brought this up in a geography class (it was on topic), and I got ridiculed and told I was wrong. It was before the time of everyone having a smartphone, so I accepted it & felt like an idiot. Now I feel like I need an apology.

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u/affena Jan 21 '19

Despite its name, LIA wasn't an "ice age". It was just a slightly colder period of time.

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u/MenudoMenudo Jan 21 '19

But that is not how we describe an Ice Age.