Mine was the fact that Anne Frank and Martin Luther King Jr were both born in 1929 😭

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disguy_ovahea 79 points 2 years ago

From 1843 to 1865, Abraham Lincoln could have sent a fax to a samurai.

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TankovayaDiviziya 27 points 2 years ago

It was brought up in the movie, "Lincoln", that the "Theory of Evolution by Natural Selection" by Charles Darwin was already published at the height of the US Civil War. Somehow, I disassociate the two events as being on completely different time period.

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Tar_alcaran 8 points 2 years ago

Lincoln and Darwin were born in the same year, 1809.

And to really blow your mind: Charles Dickens was born 3 years later, and not, say, a hundred years before.

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KSPAtlas 5 points 2 years ago

Did Japan have any fax lines though? Unless you're talking about a samurai that left Japan

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Snowclone 2 points 2 years ago

He was visiting the US

Edit: also Lincoln would have had to traveled to Paris or Lyon the last year of his life to send a pentelegraph (early fax machine) and said samurai would need to be in the other city to receive it. Not impossible technically, but Lincoln only left the US very briefly at Niagea Falls, never traveled to Europe. So it's possible, but unlikely.

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homoludens 51 points 2 years ago

If you were born in 1976 or earlier, your birthday is closer to the production of the Ford Model T than it is to today. Have a nice day :)

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Mr_Blott 46 points 2 years ago

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makyo 16 points 2 years ago

I'd help you except for my back

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phar 5 points 2 years ago

I'd help you but I'm in the middle of fucking that guy's knees

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Snowclone 2 points 2 years ago

Can I watch?

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simplejack 13 points 2 years ago

I miss horns that went auUUUga

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SnokenKeekaGuard -23 points 2 years ago

If you were born that long ago, youre probably in a retirement homa and not on Lemmy

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boonhet 18 points 2 years ago

That's not even 50 years ago lmao

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Mr_Blott 18 points 2 years ago

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21Cabbage 9 points 2 years ago

I bet the same type of person who became a radio nerd in retirement also wound up here if they went into computers instead.

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B312 6 points 2 years ago

I doubt 48 year olds are in retirement homes

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Contentedness 50 points 2 years ago

I've posted about this before but Rosa Parks lived long enough to sue OutKast in 1999 over their use of her name in their song 'Rosa Parks'.

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spankmonkey 16 points 2 years ago

Per the link it isn't clear if she wanted to sue or if it was her caretaker and legal representation. I really hope it wasn't her idea.

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zaph 12 points 2 years ago

Looks like her family didn't think it was her choice so I'ma take that at face value.

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Contentedness 9 points 2 years ago

Huh, I never read too much into it but it definitely sounds like that might be the case.

This Billboard article from the time of the 2005 legal settlement mentions:

"The settlement ends a legal dispute that some of Parks’ own relatives had criticized, saying she wouldn’t have minded the use of her name in the song “Rosa Parks” had she not been mentally impaired. "

...

"After that lawsuit was filed, some of Parks’ relatives began questioning her well-being and the actions of her caretaker and the lawyers who filed the suit, and alleged she is probably unaware of the lawsuits."

So perhaps while she did technically live long enough to sue OutKast, she was suffering from dementia at the time and it's possible that she was unaware of the actions taken in her name.

The more you know!

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Snowclone 4 points 2 years ago

It really shouldn't be TOO surprising, but she was a bit of a fighter. Particularly when it came to her civil rights in most matters, but also in reguard to her own name and likeness.

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Snowclone 3 points 2 years ago

I was around for all of this, and I know this. But it still seems very strange.

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gedaliyah 47 points 2 years ago

That also means, if Anne Frank and MLK, were alive today, they would only be in their 90s.

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aeronmelon 26 points 2 years ago

95, to be precise. Only two years older than William Shatner.

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gedaliyah 11 points 2 years ago

And younger than Jimmy Carter

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BeardedGingerWonder 1 point 2 years ago

If only she hadn't bought that drum kit.

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spankmonkey 13 points 2 years ago

Yeah, people often forget how long people live after major events in history and are surprised the underlying issues haven't gone away. We still have people from the wrong side of the civil rights movement in leadership positions.

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nuxi 45 points 2 years ago

At no point in my HS history class did our teacher mention that she was alive and living a few hours away from us.

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Viking_Hippie 25 points 2 years ago

To be fair, I'd say teaching you guys should be proof enough of her non-corpse status that she didn't have to tell you outright 🤷

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Evil_Shrubbery 41 points 2 years ago

Imagine if we still had racism in the distant futuristic year of 2000 ...

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ryathal 39 points 2 years ago

Cleopatra lived closer to the moon landing than the construction of the great pyramids in Egypt.

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Shapillon 24 points 2 years ago

And the tyrannosaurus rex lived closer to said moon landing than to time the stegosaurus existed too.

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Entropywins 6 points 2 years ago

Really that's interesting

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Shapillon 8 points 2 years ago

Jurassic Park was one lie after another.

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GladiusB 5 points 2 years ago

It is a movie. Not a documentary.

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son_named_bort 37 points 2 years ago

The Doritos Locos taco at Taco Bell has been around longer than the Confederate States of America ever was.

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Tar_alcaran 7 points 2 years ago

Buuut, the Confederacy lasted twice as long as Pepsi Crystal.

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Snowclone 3 points 2 years ago

Most things fit that description. I have tires on my truck that fit that description.

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TachyonTele 35 points 2 years ago

What always gets me is Pablo Picasso died in 1973. For some reason I always thought he was around a century or two earlier.

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JackbyDev 13 points 2 years ago

I think it's because we always imagine artists as being from the olden times.

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TachyonTele 8 points 2 years ago

Yeah, I considered him a Renaissance artist in my mind.

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Peppr 35 points 2 years ago

I'm an older millennial, born 1984, recently turned 40.

My gramps was born 1909. Not only was he alive during WW2, he was of fighting age. Not only did he fight in WW2, he was actually one of the oldest guys in his unit, seeing as he was over 30 when he got drafted.

WW2 and other first half of the 20th century shit isn't anywhere as far back in time as it feels it is.

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chiliedogg 17 points 2 years ago

I remember my great-grandma talking about picking cotton in the field one day, and being scared out of her mind when an airplane flew over her head. She'd come to Texas from California on a covered wagon, had never lived in a home with electricity, and hadn't heard about the flying machine being invented.

I helped her set up an email account about a year before she died.

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nuxi 5 points 2 years ago

You and I were both born closer to WW2 than to today.

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TheLowestStone 23 points 2 years ago

Which means that Shrek could have been Rosa Parks's favorite movie of all time.

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Good_morning 3 points 2 years ago

I just want to know what her favorite Pokemon was

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Snowclone 2 points 2 years ago

Please. It's was clearly diglet.

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ivanafterall 22 points 2 years ago

Same year as Barbara Walters. But also Audrey Hepburn and Grace Kelly. Yasser Arafat. Ed Asner. June Carter Cash. And, famousbirthdays.com tells me, TikTok's Gangsta Grandma.

Edit: They were all born the same year Wyatt Earp died.

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Snowclone 4 points 2 years ago

THE FUCK!

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TwoBeeSan 17 points 2 years ago

Your title got me too.

I've always found it interesting how a black and white photo can distort our perception of when something happened.

Was researching million man March for a presentation. Some of the first pictures were in bnw even though it happened in the 90s.

My conspiracy side says it's deliberate. 🤷‍♂️

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gedaliyah 32 points 2 years ago

Black and white film remained popular for decades after color film because it had different properties and could be easier to work with. Some photographers also preferred the aesthetic. Before digital photography became as good as film, B&W continued to be used in professional photography.

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TwoBeeSan 12 points 2 years ago

Appreciated. 👍

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nuxi 6 points 2 years ago

Oh it gets better (or worse?) there are plenty of color photographs from Dr King's 1963 march and speech. https://www.buzzfeednews.com/...

At least this is somewhat more excusable since newspapers were still mostly using B&W. The color photos would have been for the weekly or monthly news magazines which were using color.

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JackbyDev 2 points 2 years ago

It's not film, but the Apple II (1971) used a monochromatic display or something for technical reasons. I'm trying to find the quote but unfortunately I can't so this is from memory. It was something like going with black and white allowed them a better frame rate/resolution over color (and for cheaper).

It's possible similar tradeoffs existed for monochromatic film into the '90s.

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HakFoo 3 points 2 years ago

The Apple II's big selling point, compared to the other two big brands introduced in 1977 (the Radio Shack TRS-80 and Commodore PET) was colour.

But it was a weird and colour scheme that took advantage of clever Wozniak hacks to make it viable on a cheap machine. Good video hardware, and enough memory for the colour display, were spendy. That's why even into the 1980s you'd have machines like the ZX Spectrum with limitations like "every 8x8 block can only have 2 colours" which used less memory, and 40-column screens that were readable on TVs instead of dedicated high-res monitors..

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JackbyDev 2 points 2 years ago

Maybe I'm getting it confused with a different apple computer then besides the apple 2. I definitely have seen a clip talking about this. Maybe the original iMac or something.

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PrimeMinisterKeyes 4 points 2 years ago

'Member that song "74-75" by The Connells? That was a big hit in the Nineties.
We're now at 31 years after the release of this single and 49 years after the class of 1975 graduated.

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