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George Washington Died In 1799. The First Dinosaur Fossil Was Discovered In 1824. George Washington Never Knew Dinosaurs Existed

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Marilyn Monroe And Queen Elizabeth Were Born In The Same Year. Here They (Both 30 At The Time) Meet At A Movie Premier In London In October 1956

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Prisoners Arrived At Auschwitz Just Days After Mcdonald’s Was Founded (1940)

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Woolly Mammoths Were Still Alive While Egyptians Were Building The Pyramids (2660 BCE)

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Oxford University Existed For Hundreds Of Years Before The Aztec Empire Was Founded (1428)

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Harriet The Tortoise, Who Died In 2006, Had Seen Charles Darwin In Person

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You Could Take The London Underground To The Last Public Hanging In The UK (1868)

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Star Wars Came Out The Same Year As The Last Guillotine Execution In France (1977)

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John Tyler, America’s Tenth President, Was Born In 1790. He Has Two Living Grandchildren. So This Means…

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NASA Was Exploring Space By The Time Scientists Could Agree On Plate Tectonics (1967)

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Swiss Women Got The Right To Vote The Same Year The U.S. Drove A Buggy On The Moon (1971)

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Ecstasy Was Invented The Same Year The Titanic Sank (1912)

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The Fax Machine Was Invented The Same Year The First Wagon Crossed The Oregon Trail (1843)

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Nintendo Was Founded When Jack The Ripper Was Still On The Loose (1889)

Orville Wright Was Still Alive When Hiroshima And Nagasaki Were Bombed (1945)

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Princess Diana And Mother Teresa Died Days Apart In 1997

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Charlie Chaplin Died In 1977, The Same Year Apple Was Incorporated

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Microsoft Was Founded While Spain Was Still A Fascist Dictatorship (1975)

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Anne Frank And Martin Luther King Junior Were Born In The Same Year (1929)

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The Ottoman Empire Existed The Second To Last Time The Chicago Cubs Won The World Series (1908)

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The Brooklyn Bridge Was Being Built During The Battle Of Little Bighorn (1876)

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Spanish Surrealist Artist Salvador Dali Died In 1989, The Same Year Actor Daniel Radcliffe, Actress Hayden Panettiere And Houston Rapper Kirko Bangz Were Born

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The Last Known Widow Of A Civil War Vet, Maudie Hopkins (Seen Here At Her Lexa, Ark., Home In 2004 At 89 Years Old), Died In 2008. That’s The Same Year Barack Obama Won His First Presidential Election

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Abraham Lincoln Was Assassinated On April 15, 1865, Just A Few Months Before The Secret Service Was Created

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The First Underground Line In London Was Opened On January 10, 1863. At That Time, The Civil War Was Still Raging In The United States

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