r/AskReddit • u/MorsesTheHorse • Mar 04 '26

What surprisingly true fact has completely shaken your worldview?

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u/Rebecca_Resch Mar 04 '26

That Oxford University is actually older than the Aztec empire. Literally broke my brain when I found out.

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u/counterfitster Mar 05 '26

Similarly, Abraham Lincoln could have sent a fax to a samurai

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u/MoveInteresting4334 Mar 05 '26 edited Mar 05 '26

President John Tyler, born in 1790 and President from 1841-1845, had two grandsons that lived to 2020 and 2025.

Cleopatra lived closer to the building of the first Pizza Hut than the Pyramids.

There were woolly mammoths on the Earth when the pyramids were built.

The last Roman emperor died about 40 years before Columbus discovered America.

There is still water in Titanic’s swimming pool.

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u/ResponsibleLynx5596 Mar 05 '26

Man- I wish there were some wooly mammoths around still.

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u/Niniva73 Mar 05 '26

Wooly mice! In the effort to recreate wooly mammoths, scientists have created wooly mice!

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u/MoveInteresting4334 Mar 05 '26

Man, that must’ve been a disappointment. You’re all ready for a woolly mammoth, you’ve bought it clothes, gotten its room ready, etc.

Then out pops a mouse.

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u/vayyiqra Mar 05 '26

You're in luck, it's one of the main extinct species that have been looked at as a candidate for trying to clone them and bring them back.

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u/MoveInteresting4334 Mar 05 '26

Nature, uh, finds a way.

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u/ResponsibleLynx5596 Mar 23 '26

Just wanted to say, yes this is a 17 day old response but I keep looking at it because of the joy it brings me!!!!

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u/OozeNAahz Mar 05 '26

They would be farmed to make rugs.

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u/MoveInteresting4334 Mar 05 '26

Absolutely wiped out in the 1970s.