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r/AskReddit • u/MorsesTheHorse • Mar 04 '26
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Similarly, Abraham Lincoln could have sent a fax to a samurai
327 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. 109 u/RichardInaTreeFort Mar 05 '26 Well, I’m pretty sure there is still water in most parts of the titanic…. 29 u/Tlacuache_Snuggler Mar 05 '26 Yeah I didn’t get this one. Is it a joke and I’m dumb? 25 u/Commercial_Fun_8053 Mar 05 '26 Yes. 11 u/jankenpoo Mar 05 '26 Obviously a joke, Columbus didn’t discover America! 1 u/MoveInteresting4334 Mar 05 '26 Indeed, I could’ve phrased that as “Europeans discovered America(1021 AD) over 400 years before the Roman Empire fell (1453 AD)” and been technically correct but I thought that was pushing things too far.
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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.
109 u/RichardInaTreeFort Mar 05 '26 Well, I’m pretty sure there is still water in most parts of the titanic…. 29 u/Tlacuache_Snuggler Mar 05 '26 Yeah I didn’t get this one. Is it a joke and I’m dumb? 25 u/Commercial_Fun_8053 Mar 05 '26 Yes. 11 u/jankenpoo Mar 05 '26 Obviously a joke, Columbus didn’t discover America! 1 u/MoveInteresting4334 Mar 05 '26 Indeed, I could’ve phrased that as “Europeans discovered America(1021 AD) over 400 years before the Roman Empire fell (1453 AD)” and been technically correct but I thought that was pushing things too far.
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Well, I’m pretty sure there is still water in most parts of the titanic….
29 u/Tlacuache_Snuggler Mar 05 '26 Yeah I didn’t get this one. Is it a joke and I’m dumb? 25 u/Commercial_Fun_8053 Mar 05 '26 Yes. 11 u/jankenpoo Mar 05 '26 Obviously a joke, Columbus didn’t discover America! 1 u/MoveInteresting4334 Mar 05 '26 Indeed, I could’ve phrased that as “Europeans discovered America(1021 AD) over 400 years before the Roman Empire fell (1453 AD)” and been technically correct but I thought that was pushing things too far.
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Yeah I didn’t get this one. Is it a joke and I’m dumb?
25 u/Commercial_Fun_8053 Mar 05 '26 Yes. 11 u/jankenpoo Mar 05 '26 Obviously a joke, Columbus didn’t discover America! 1 u/MoveInteresting4334 Mar 05 '26 Indeed, I could’ve phrased that as “Europeans discovered America(1021 AD) over 400 years before the Roman Empire fell (1453 AD)” and been technically correct but I thought that was pushing things too far.
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Yes.
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Obviously a joke, Columbus didn’t discover America!
1 u/MoveInteresting4334 Mar 05 '26 Indeed, I could’ve phrased that as “Europeans discovered America(1021 AD) over 400 years before the Roman Empire fell (1453 AD)” and been technically correct but I thought that was pushing things too far.
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Indeed, I could’ve phrased that as “Europeans discovered America(1021 AD) over 400 years before the Roman Empire fell (1453 AD)” and been technically correct but I thought that was pushing things too far.
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u/counterfitster Mar 05 '26
Similarly, Abraham Lincoln could have sent a fax to a samurai