historical facts that will distort your sense of time Star Wars premiered in 1977 the same year France performed its last execution by guillotine Abraham Lincoln and Charles darn were born on the same day and were both 12 years old when Napoleon died the Sahara Desert was Lush and green just 6,000 years ago the US took 284 years to form after Columbus landed in the Americas and the US won't reach 284 years old until 2060 women in Switzerland gained the right to vote after NASA had already driven a lunar rover on the moon octopuses have existed
longer than Dinosaurs the Ottoman Empire still existed the second to last time the Chicago Cubs won the World Series in 1908 only 66 years separate the first flight in the moonlanding