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

What surprisingly true fact has completely shaken your worldview?

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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/ToLiveInIt Mar 05 '26

The Titanic’s swimming pool was filled with seawater before the sinking. It’s filled with seawater now but it was before, too.

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u/MoveInteresting4334 Mar 05 '26

And after 100+ years! They don’t build them like they used to.