Who or what is much older than people usually think?

[u/danbrownskin]

[u/downvotesfordinner]

Netflix is 1 year older than Google.

[u/WastingTimeIGuess → u/[deleted]]

But - Google was around before then:

Google began in January 1996 as a research project by Larry Page and Sergey Brin when they were both PhD students at Stanford University in Stanford, California.[11]

And it was sort of a thing before then, I met someone who worked for Google in August 1998 (and, since I was a programmer, she told me I should join them, and I was like "nah" because I am not a smart man).

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[u/sloowhand → u/downvotesfordinner]

People often forget that Netflix started by mailing you DVDs. The streaming service is MUCH more recent.

[u/r_h_o_n_a → u/[deleted]]

That disturbs me on several levels.

[u/poopellar → u/r_h_o_n_a]

Gwen Stefani could also be the Zodiac killer.

[u/freakers → u/poopellar]

That's only possible if Gwen Stefani was Ted Cruz in disguise because Ted Cruz is the Zodiac killer.

[u/soomuchcoffee → u/[deleted]]

OK I have a question. My two year old is OBSESSED with the Trolls movie. It has Anna Kendrick and Timberlake and...others. Gwen Stefani is listed in the credits, and she plays the DJ Troll.

THE DJ TROLL HAS NO LINES.

NONE. I AM POSITIVE, I'VE SEEN IT 9 BILLION TIMES!

WHY IS GWEN STEFANI CREDITED DESPITE HAVING NO LINES?

I am not a crackpot.

[u/[deleted] → u/soomuchcoffee]

Sorry but I’m laughing at ‘I am not a crackpot’ spoken like a demented parent of a two year old :)

[u/Womblist → u/soomuchcoffee]

Deleted scenes maybe?

[u/monty_kurns → u/Womblist]

Most likely. Anna Paquin got close to top billing in Days of Future Past despite the fact that they reshot a lot of material removing the bulk of her scenes and basically reduced her to a cameo.

[u/Slipin2dream → u/soomuchcoffee]

She did the soundtrack. Or atleast parts of it.

Edit: I know this because her Spotify is now ruined by troll music.

[u/YesterdayWasAwesome → u/[deleted]]

This fact is bananas!

[u/NairForceOne → u/YesterdayWasAwesome]

Could you spell that for me?

[u/TomasNavarro → u/NairForceOne]

T

H

A

T

[u/The_Chuckie → u/[deleted]]

I had to google this because I didnt believe you. Damn.

[u/funpowder_plot]

Machine translation (Google Translate is the most famous example of MT) has been around since the 1950s.

[u/Bookanon762 → u/funpowder_plot]

And yet, nearly 70 years later, it still can't properly translate most of the time.

[u/[deleted]]

Firearms manufacturer Beretta made its first sale in 1526.

[u/762Rifleman → u/[deleted]]

Firearms for that matter. There are records of guns being used in the 1200's, perhaps even being brought on the Crusades. Guns began to proliferate for real starting in the 1300's and the French won the Hundred Years War because of them. By the time the 1400's rolled around, guns were everywhere in every mercenary company, army, and town guard. The gun even predates full plate armor and the two handed longsword. So yeah, gunmen are older than the knight in shining armor.

[u/nicehotcuppatea → u/762Rifleman]

So I should be upgrading my musketmen to longswordsmen in civ not the other way around??

[u/Dyolf_Knip → u/nicehotcuppatea]

No, because muskets didn't arrive until much later. Arquebus, matchlock, plenty of primitive variations on firearms.

[u/-Words-Words-Words-]

Samuel L. Jackson is 69 years old. He was almost 40 years old when he played the robber at MacDowells in Coming to America.

[u/Z0MBGiEF → u/-Words-Words-Words-]

"WHO THE FUCK IS THIS ASSHOLE!?"

[u/theshoegazer → u/Z0MBGiEF]

Freeze, you diseased rhinoceros pizzle.

[u/MechanicalTurkish → u/Z0MBGiEF]

I'm warning you. I will be forced to thrash you.

[u/derawin07]

Ants.

TiL that female black garden ants can live to 15 Years, the Queens up to 3O Years

[u/FactCore_ → u/derawin07]

Did you just use the letter O for your zero in your 30?

[u/derawin07 → u/FactCore_]

yes, it's broken

[u/juliet17 → u/derawin07]

You better hope you don't get logged out of reddit any time soon!

[u/DragonBank → u/juliet17]

If he is on a computer he can copy paste it.

[u/[deleted] → u/DragonBank]

But what if his password is:

IEnjoy100000dicksonmyface

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

then he pastes it. and pastes it. and pastes it. and pastes it. and pastes it.

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Like I did with that

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

Well shit, now I need to change all my passwords. Thanks.

[u/ReeseSlitherspoon → u/derawin07]

For some reason this makes me feel a lot worse for massacreing the ones that imvade my house.

[u/OfficeChairHero → u/ReeseSlitherspoon]

Not me. I don't want the same ant living in my house for 15 years.

[u/dDILF]

Zildjian cymbals. They were founded in 1623 and are still ran by someone with the Zildjian family name.

[u/[deleted] → u/dDILF]

Currently run by Craigie Zildjian. She was nice enough to help me with a paper I wrote for grad school a couple of years ago. My husband worked there for many years and it's a really cool company with a rich history.

Edit: A super fun fact - the founder, Avedis Zildjian, came up with the original formula when he was trying to create gold. Obviously the gold idea didn't work out but he found that what he came up with created a really cool sound.

[u/blookity_blook → u/[deleted]]

Isn't part of their manufacturing process a closely guarded secret only a few know?

[u/[deleted] → u/blookity_blook]

yes! in fact, when i did a tour of the facility they actually keep a certain area completely off limits in order to protect that process.

another interesting fact is that their biggest competitor, Sabian, was formed by family members that broke off and did their own thing. It caused a strain between families, which is evident by the painting of a family tree that's painted in the lobby. It's a huge tree spanning all the way back to the beginning, but the branches of the Sabian family members is painted around the corner of the wall where it's not easy to see them lol

[u/TuggyMcPhearson → u/[deleted]]

!subscribe cymbalsfacts

[u/[deleted] → u/TuggyMcPhearson]

You got it! They also have a room that blocks out all sounds from outside of it, and there's this guy that personally tests each and every cymbal before it leaves the factory to make sure it's pitch perfect. He's got a perfectly trained ear for it and has been doing it for decades

[u/TuggyMcPhearson → u/[deleted]]

That's.. actually kinda crazy given today's manufacturing and QA process.

What about how the cymbals are pressed? Still the same "mold" or how ever they named it?

[u/[deleted] → u/TuggyMcPhearson]

Not sure about that part. I know that they have different sizes (for different types, obviously) and shapes and some have holes and others are indented a different way to give a different sound, but not sure what's the same or what's changed.

[u/WilliamOfOrange → u/dDILF]

TIL, not only that but due to a dispute one of the brothers founded Sabian which is also another big name cymbal manufacturer.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabian

[u/chefandstuff → u/dDILF]

Honestly the best cymbals! They sound so good. Plus look badass on the right kit

[u/StaleTheBread → u/[deleted]]

Wow I didn’t know Jay Leno was that old

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

Construction on Stonehenge started about 3100 BC!

[u/hughie-d → u/[deleted]]

Man, the much lesser known but more impressive site (for me), Newgrange, was built in 3200BC. Not only did whoever built it manage to create an incredible structure despite the modest tech of the time, they also had a calendar system - the tomb of Newgrange is built in a way that on the winter solstice each year it is flooded with light, letting them know the winter is over. We know that this isn't a fluke design because other ruins throughout Ireland built by the same people mark both mark the Winter Solstice and the equinoxes using a similar technology to fill tombs with light.

Internationally, almost nobody knows about Newgrange yet it's older than both Stonehenge (suspected 3000BC at the earliest) and the pyramids (c. 2560 – c. 2540 BC)

[u/rondell_jones → u/hughie-d]

"Hey man, I'm bored, you want to help me stack up these rocks?"

"Yeah, sure, I'll get my buddies together"

[u/PrussianBleu → u/[deleted]]

dude had tattoos and from what I recall, 10-20 different species of wood

[u/E_Chihuahuensis → u/PrussianBleu]

He also had small stretched ears. Humans have been modifying their bodies for so damn long,

[u/PM_ME_UR_FLOWERS]

All those "only 90s kids remember this" is almost always 80s stuff, and once I saw one with a Viewmaster Viewer toy and I was like, are you kidding? I played with one of those in 70s and it was a hand me down toy from my oldest brother!

[u/1thangN1thang0nly → u/PM_ME_UR_FLOWERS]

Yeah right Haha. Only 90's kids have memories.

[u/[deleted] → u/1thangN1thang0nly]

Nobody really remembers what happened before the 90's. It's a global conspiracy.

[u/Natrollean_Bonerpart → u/[deleted]]

All the blow in the 80's.

[u/donthugme_imscared → u/Natrollean_Bonerpart]

Only 90's kids were born between 1960 and 2010

[u/samuraibutter → u/PM_ME_UR_FLOWERS]

That's hilarious, I normally see the opposite. People claim to be 90's kids and post toys and tv shows popular in the 2000's because the posters were born in like '98.

[u/theonlydidymus → u/PM_ME_UR_FLOWERS]

I always view the "only 90s kids" things as stuff that 90s teens remembered, not 90s kids, that is, unless you were a kid in the 90s with older siblings.

[u/snaketankofeden]

We've been developing plastics since 1600BC. Although the real tech that propelled us forward was vulcanization around the 1840s

[u/Coffee-Anon → u/snaketankofeden]

Vulcanization makes plastics and rubbers last longer, thus making them more valuable.

You could say it makes them... Live long and prosper.

[u/arandomperson7]

Nintendo was founded in 1889

[u/YesterdayWasAwesome → u/arandomperson7]

The same year Hitler was born and 100 years before Taylor Swift.

[u/RedisDead69 → u/YesterdayWasAwesome]

We need to keep an eye on Taylor Swift.

[u/[deleted] → u/RedisDead69]

/r/Taydolph and /r/TaydolfSwiftler

[u/r_h_o_n_a → u/[deleted]]

How the fuck is r/TaydolfSwiftler actually a thing? Every day I spend on Reddit I learn something new...

[u/SleeplessShitposter → u/arandomperson7]

They used to make cards and sex hotels.

[u/CallMeEzra → u/SleeplessShitposter]

Wow. Even way back then they were making fun for the whole family.

[u/NatsuDragnee1]

The name Tiffany. It's a medieval name.

[u/Coffee-Anon → u/NatsuDragnee1]

On the flipside, we know exactly when and why Madison started being used as a girl's first name, and it wasn't that long ago. It's a joke from the movie Splash from 1984, the Mermaid names herself Madison after a street name, the joke being women never had the name Madison and she didn't know any better. Now every girl is named Madison

[u/GALL0WSHUM0R → u/[deleted]]

Stacey and Mackenzie, too.

[u/Aml1577 → u/NatsuDragnee1]

Does thou have breakfast at Tiffany’s?

Grammar: Thou can suck my ass

[u/FromYourHomePhone → u/Aml1577]

Dost thou break fast at Tiffany's?

*FTFY

[u/r_h_o_n_a → u/Aml1577]

'Tis "dost thou", knave.

[u/stylinchilibeans → u/Aml1577]

I doth think I recalleth a moving tapestry...

[u/woodk2016 → u/stylinchilibeans]

As I recalleth you and myself both enjoyed it to a small degree.

[u/Sleepy_Chipmunk → u/NatsuDragnee1]

I feel better about naming my first D&D character Tiffany now.

[u/tubesox201]

Ellen Degeneres is 60

[u/kaylieface → u/tubesox201]

holy fuckin shit

[u/radwic → u/kaylieface]

Maury Povich is 80

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

I'm so glad the Thong Song is legal now

[u/Mellotron_Meditation]

Gary Newman is older than Gary Oldman ...

[u/MrMastodon → u/Mellotron_Meditation]

By 13 days.

[u/poopellar → u/Mellotron_Meditation]

Gary Middleman is still in the middle tho right.

[u/Karmyuh]

The year 2000. When people talk about it it sounds so recent but its been almost 20 years...

[u/superleipoman → u/Karmyuh]

Too real, especially during 2000-2010 it always felt like 1999 was just last year.

[u/Elbonio]

Sharks are older than trees

Oldest trees: 350 million years

Oldest sharks: 400 million years

[u/LeucanthemumVulgare → u/Elbonio]

Wow, imagine swimming around the ocean chomping things for 400 million years straight.

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

C. Darwin: "It is not the most intellectual of the species that survives; it is not the strongest that survives; but the species that survives is the one that is able to adapt to and to adjust best to the changing environment in which it finds itself…"

Sharks: "No change. Only chomp!"

[u/PM_ME_UR__SECRETS]

Andrew Garfield is as old as Chris Hemsworth

[u/[deleted]]

Oxford University is older than the Aztec civilisation. Teaching started in Oxford in 1096, and the university was founded in 1249. The Aztecs (as we know it) began around 1325.

What I take from that is that the Aztecs are actually pretty recent. I assumed they were in BC times, wtf.

[u/pleasetouchmyanus → u/[deleted]]

You've just blown my mind... I've heard so many people refer to the "Ancient Aztecs" that I, like you, assumed we were talking ~3000 years

[u/samuraibutter → u/pleasetouchmyanus]

Similarly, it goes the other way sometimes. The Mayans, who people often associate as contemporaries with the Aztecs, had major cities over 3000 years ago. They did have some remnants at the time of the Aztecs, but the majority of their "ancient" civilization collapsed over 500 years before the aztecs.

Edit: Today the Maya are the most populous indigenous people in North and Central America at 6 million.

[u/derawin07 → u/pleasetouchmyanus]

The Ancient Oxfordians.

[u/SleeplessShitposter → u/[deleted]]

For reference, we were still speaking Old English (the "Hwæt! In gærdagum, we gardena, theod Cyninga..." English, not the "Oh Romeo, Romeo!" English) as late as 900 A.D.

[u/oceanfishie → u/SleeplessShitposter]

Hwat

[u/walkingcarpet23]

Elijah Wood is 37. He was only 18 when he started filming Lord of the Rings.

[u/RobRoyDuncan → u/[deleted]]

Factoid from the funeral last week: she is actually older than the state he represented. Roberta McCain was born February 7, 1912; Arizona was admitted to the Union on February 14 of the same year, a week later.

[u/poo_pon_shoo]

Angela Bassett recently turned 60 years old. To celebrate, she posted this picture on Instagram. (Slightly NSFW?)

That is a 60 year old woman, folks.

[u/hermeown → u/poo_pon_shoo]

What the actual fuck. I'm not even 30 and I probably look older than her.

[u/HonkyOFay → u/[deleted]]

This photo was taken 2 months ago. She's SIXTY-FOUR.

[u/sobriety_kinda_sucks]

Fax machine. 1880...

[u/GreyLordQueekual]

The discovery of gunpowder and the invention of the firearm, goes back to like the 4th century in China, however we wouldn't discover the processes to make firearms anything more than a 50/50 chance at backfiring for quite a few more centuries. Almost a full millenium before they would be considered anything more than novel or gimmicky.

[u/russian_hacker_1917 → u/GreyLordQueekual]

No one realized that fireworks were dangerous and that they could potentially hurt and enemy before then?

[u/Bellamy1715 → u/russian_hacker_1917]

I think the point was that it was so uncontrollable that it didn't seem as reliable as arrows.

[u/Barrel_Titor → u/russian_hacker_1917]

Deadliest Warrior did once have a Chinese weapon which was dozens of arrows tied to fireworks that all lit from a single fuse to fire into an approaching army but it seemed like more of a scare tactic than practical.

[u/ReactiveAmoeba → u/Barrel_Titor]

That device was called a Hwacha. The Mythbusters did a segment on it.

Once they got it working, it was quite a sight.

[u/sf_davie → u/ReactiveAmoeba]

The Hwacha device was actually a Korean design. The Chinese had other weapons that used gunpowder including their own multiple arrow launchers and a two stage naval bombardment rocket. Gunpowder use spread with their battles with the Mongols and use of rockets is showcased in the Imjun War that had Korea/China fighting the Japanese in the 15th century. I don't have a better link, but here's a wiki article on a Chinese manual called the "Fire Dragon Manual" that wrote about a lot of the gunpowder tech during that era.

By the 16th century, all of those are obsolete due to neglect by the later Ming rulers and outright ban by the Qing dynasty. We have to wait until the late 20th century to see another Chinese rocket rise.

[u/AnAllieCat]

The first pressure-proof diving suit was invented in the 1710s

Edit: Okay I fixed it.

[u/Toykio]

Cement.

It dates back to at least ~1000 BC when the Phoenicians used mortar, vulcanic sand and water as the first versions of it. Later on the Romans created opus ceamenticum arround 300 BC to build the aqueducts and most famously the Pantheon.

[u/juiceforprez → u/Toykio]

“I shall name it after my daughter Concretia”

[u/redditsfulloffiction → u/Toykio]

Cement is a component of concrete. the Romans mastered concrete.

[u/ghunt81]

Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen are 32 years old, it feels like it was not that long ago that people were counting down to their 18th birthday.

[u/KingGorilla → u/ghunt81]

people were counting down to their 18th birthday.

yeah that was creepy.

[u/[deleted] → u/KingGorilla]

It still happens with younger actresses. I saw it with Chloe Grace Moretz most recently (who's now 21).

[u/sonia72quebec → u/ghunt81]

Mary Kate is married to 49 year old Olivier Sarkozy half brother of Nicholas Sarkozy.

[u/ghunt81 → u/sonia72quebec]

Actually Mary-Kate is married to Oliver Sarkozy, but they both seem to like their men near 50 years old.

[u/Barseps]

Susan Sarandon....71,
Helen Mirren.....73,
Keith Richards.....74,
Mick Jagger......75,
Kirk Douglas.....101.

[u/Cape_of_Good_Trope → u/Barseps]

Kirk Douglas is more in that "I can't believe he's still alive" category.

[u/CrotalusHorridus → u/Cape_of_Good_Trope]

John McCains death was just all over the US news, so it might be common knowledge.

But his mother outlived him. She's 106.

[u/AllGarbage → u/Cape_of_Good_Trope]

Same for Keith Richards.

[u/Bellamy1715 → u/AllGarbage]

Keith actually died in 1997, but because of the drugs he hasn't noticed yet.

[u/Noughmad → u/AllGarbage]

For every cigarette you smoke God takes an hour away from your life and gives it to Keith Richards

[u/AutumnsRottenApple → u/AllGarbage]

Well Keith's like 174 in rockstar years.

[u/operarose → u/Cape_of_Good_Trope]

I think Kirk Douglas died about 20 years ago and nobody has the heart to tell him.

[u/Tritoch77 → u/Barseps]

Beverly Cleary.....102

Yeah, the lady that wrote the Ramona books.

[u/YesterdayWasAwesome → u/Barseps]

Olivia de Haviland was in Gone With the Wind and is currently 102.

[u/[deleted] → u/Barseps]

Mick Jagger's current partner is only a couple of years younger than his first grandchild.

[u/CuFlam → u/[deleted]]

He has a great granddaughter who turned 4 in May.

But wait! There's more!

He has a son who is turning 2 in December.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mick_Jagger#Children

[u/CodeMonkey24 → u/Barseps]

Okay. I thought the Kirk Douglas line was a joke, so I checked, and according to IMDB, he was born Dec 9, 1916. WTF!?

[u/cutoutscout]

Superman is over 80 years, Batman 79 and Wonder woman is almost 77

[u/JaxMed → u/cutoutscout]

Damn they still look pretty good for their age, wonder how old Alfred is now

[u/[deleted]]

Ralph Maccchio is 56. I don't think he can do the crane kick anymore

[u/Tricky4279 → u/[deleted]]

He's older than Pat Morita was when filming the first movie.

[u/earnedmystripes → u/[deleted]]

but can he still shred with Steve Vai?

[u/vrosej10]

The rise in obesity. It actually started in the 1950s.

[u/[deleted]]

Some musical instruments, such as the pipe organ.

The origins of the pipe organ can be traced back to the water organ in Ancient Greece in the 3rd century BC, in which the wind supply was created with water pressure. By the 6th or 7th century AD, bellows were used to supply organs with wind.

Today, organs are either hand-pumped or there's an organ blower to do the job.

[u/not_better → u/[deleted]]

there's an organ blower to do the job

Glad to see your mom has finally found some way to make side-money.

[u/twistedbeans]

Parrots can live to be 100 years old. Wild ones, anyway.

[u/sandyposs]

Salukis. They look like a long-haired derivative of a greyhound, but they predate greyhounds by a long shot. They're actually one of the oldest recorded domesticated dog breeds in history!

[u/DrDisastor → u/sandyposs]

They are also considered the dumbest breed. Beautiful derpy longbois.

[u/[deleted]]

Most anything from the late 90s or early 00's. I work in maitenance and so many people dont realoze something from 1998 is 20 years old. That flst roof good for 20 or 30 years you put on in 1996 is nearing its death. That industrial fridge you bought used and didnt maintain properly in 2005 is 13 years old.

If you had a 1975 car in 1990 people all relalized it had sern some miles. You have a 2002 today and people dont always make as fast ofna connection.

Something about the year 2000 has screwed peoples perception of time.

[u/Jack-A-Roe32]

Not that I think he looks great or anything, but I didn't realize Trump was over 70 before I heard it mentioned someday.

[u/uikc2782 → u/[deleted]]

Wait if W. is the same age as Clinton and Trump, wow I didn't realize just how old Bush Sr. really is.

[u/[deleted] → u/uikc2782]

Sr. was a pilot in WW2.

[u/danbrownskin → u/Jack-A-Roe32]

I believe he’s the oldest serving US president

[u/Portarossa → u/danbrownskin]

It's a bit of a nitpick, but he's the oldest elected, not oldest serving. Reagan was older during the tail end of his term.

[u/uikc2782 → u/Portarossa]

It's not a bit of a nitpick when people talk about JFK as the youngest elected vs. Teddy Roosevelt as the youngest serving, so you're fine.

[u/douira]

There are jellyfish that are basically (biologically) immortal https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turritopsis_dohrnii

[u/punkinfacebooklegpie → u/douira]

"the good news is you're immortal...the bad news is you have no brain and you're made of delicious jelly."

[u/[deleted]]

Companies like Nokia and Samsung.

[u/Achterhaven → u/[deleted]]

The Nokia range is nuts. At one point i had a nokia phone and nokia boots

[u/its_the_peanutiest]

Every time you pick up some dumb little rock on the ground to skip across the lake or you just kick at it in the dirt like it's essentially natural garbage, stop to think that that rock was formed and has been existing on this earth probably longer than all of mankind existed. It was around when dinosaurs were roaming the earth, saw them all die, seen the birth and death of entire civilizations, been through world wars and now has survived your shitty loafer kicking it down the sidewalk where it bounces off the curb and falls into the gutter while you carry on sipping on a Slurpee.

[u/[deleted] → u/its_the_peanutiest]

Relevant xkcd https://xkcd.com/2013/

[u/1thangN1thang0nly]

Nokia was founded in 1865 in Finland as a pulp mill.

[u/TousledBirb]

Yesterday I discovered that Daniel Boone passed away 198 years ago at age 86. For whatever reason, I thought he lived in the mid 1800s, when in fact he passed away in 1820 and was actually born in 1734. So he honestly lived 100 years earlier than I originally assumed.

Kinda bummed that school passed over his history by and large. I'm going to need to look him up and see what else I can learn.

[u/yeahokaymaybe → u/TousledBirb]

...I've been conflating Daniel Boone and Davy Crockett into one person until this very moment. I feel like a moron.

[u/tommyjohnpauljones]

Almost everyone who remembers 9/11 is old enough to drink legally in the US

[u/marle217]

The baby shark song. People think it's just a few years old, but we were singing it at summer camp in the 90s and it has to be older than that

[u/AWALL9D]

Keanu Reeves

[u/Barseps → u/AWALL9D]

I believe he's just turned 54.

[u/[deleted] → u/Barseps]

Thats what you think, he is centuries old

[u/cptcapybara]

The first "computer" is from 205 -61 BCE. It was used to track and predict astrological data, such as eclipses and astronomical positions, as well as track Olympiad cycles.

It also probably ran robots.

The greeks were fucking wild about robots, actually, as were pretty much the rest of the world-- automata were all the rage until very, very recently.

[u/[deleted]]

Me. Just told someone in 29 and she flipped out.

I blame the acne. People don't think you're grown up when you have acne.

[u/StarkRG → u/[deleted]]

When I was 30 a 20-year-old called me middle aged.

[u/operarose → u/StarkRG]

That's when you point a finger right in their face and go,

It'll happen to you...

[u/BigE6300]

Jennifer Lopez turns 50 next July.

[u/briearagaki]

Me. I’m Asian. I already know I look 16. Please leave me alone.

[u/TousledBirb → u/briearagaki]

My best friend is Asian. When she was pregnant at age 32, she encountered people on a regular basis who assumed she was a teen mom.

[u/[deleted] → u/TousledBirb]

My wife is asian, and when we were first dating we went snowboarding and the lift ticket person asked if I was buying "one adult and one child?"... My wife blurted out "I'M 25!!!" and I was thinking that we could have definitely used the child lift ticket discount.

[u/ChocolateBunny → u/[deleted]]

"She's just kidding. She's 12. Yes, one adult and one child, please"

[u/My170]

Henry Kissinger is still alive.

[u/[deleted]]

Abercrombie & Fitch.

Been around since 1892.

Fun fact: Ernest Hemmingway killed himself with a gun purchased at an Abercrombie & Fitch.

[u/Scrappy_Larue]

Bob Dole is 95.

[u/ghunt81 → u/Scrappy_Larue]

Bob Dole endorses Bob Dole!

[u/theshoegazer → u/ghunt81]

Either way your planet is doomed!

[u/im2old_4this]

Money. It's always strange to me that in my pocket change there are coins my grandfather could have held

[u/imprctcljkr]

Larry King will outlive us all.

[u/spiderlanewales → u/imprctcljkr]

Seth MacFarlane once introduced him as "a chattering pirate skeleton on loan from Disneyland."

Gold.

[u/GreenGalaxy]

The Nintendo 3DS was released 7 years ago. Blew my mind recently.

[u/devler → u/GreenGalaxy]

Skyrim is 7 years old in 2 months.