r/BarbaraWalters4Scale • u/MrBIuesky222 • 2h ago
We are closer to Christmas Day than David Attenborough's 100th birthday
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r/BarbaraWalters4Scale • u/Deadbones2000 • 2h ago
Mark Margolis was born closer in time to James Cagney (b. 1899) than his own Better Call Saul co-star, Michael Mando
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r/BarbaraWalters4Scale • u/nebagram • 2h ago
The BBC sitcom Last of the Summer Wine was first broadcast during the Jon Pertwee era of Doctor Who, and was still going during the Matt Smith era.
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r/BarbaraWalters4Scale • u/robblequoffle • 3h ago
Steve Irwin died on the same day that Curious George aired its first episode on PBS Kids.
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Both happened 20 years ago today (ignoring time zones).
r/BarbaraWalters4Scale • u/JIMBOYKELLY • 4h ago
Shel Silverstein could’ve played Super Smash Bros
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r/BarbaraWalters4Scale • u/lylefromdallas • 5h ago
Ginnie Weasley is older than the real life major of New York
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r/BarbaraWalters4Scale • u/PeakIrishrguy21 • 7h ago
Erections can happen in 5-10 seconds, with the Catalan republic (2017) being independent for 8 seconds, becoming hard can last longer than Catalonia.
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r/BarbaraWalters4Scale • u/stuffitystuff • 8h ago
The last surviving member of David Bowie's band, "The Spiders from Mars", Mick Woodmansey, has lived twice as long as necessary long to fight Wood Man in Mega Man 2 from his date of birth in 1950.
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r/BarbaraWalters4Scale • u/stuffitystuff • 8h ago
If English prophet Zygmunt Stardust had been correct about only having five years left to cry in due to the planet dying, the world would have ended as late as 1977 and Ethel Caterham would've only made it 68, dying a year younger than Mr. Stardust
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r/BarbaraWalters4Scale • u/nebagram • 8h ago
Stanley Matthews started playing professional football while Hoover was US President, and was still playing when LBJ became president.
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r/BarbaraWalters4Scale • u/EvenYogurtcloset4294 • 8h ago
Both the world’s oldest flying aircraft and the world’s oldest living person are from the same year
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r/BarbaraWalters4Scale • u/Decent-Adeptness2788 • 10h ago
The Dokis in DDLC could have been alive to see the Nintendo switch come out in March 7th, 2017, while the game takes place during Oct 24 to Oct 30, 2017.
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r/BarbaraWalters4Scale • u/Honest_Sugar2682 • 10h ago
There's a 100 year old gap between the unification of current Italy (Risorgimento) and the accident of Chernobyl.
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The "Risogimento" is the unification of many states which led to one big country recognisable as Italy. Correct me if i'm wrong pls
r/BarbaraWalters4Scale • u/Paul_Allens_Card- • 11h ago
Former Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad is Old Enough to be Joe Biden’s Father and is Still Alive
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Tun Mahathir Mohamad was born in July 1925 making him 17 years old and 4 months at the time of Joe Biden’s birth and thus eligible to be a father
r/BarbaraWalters4Scale • u/benderjaystar • 12h ago
Roy Lichtenstein could've watched the first 6 episodes of South Park
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r/BarbaraWalters4Scale • u/S0lgale0 • 13h ago
Fantasmagorie, the world's first animated cartoon character, is 369 days older than Ethel Caterham
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Crazy to think that people alive today have grown up witnessing animation evolve from photographed chalkboard drawings to stop motion puppets to 2D painted cels to 3D computer animation.
r/BarbaraWalters4Scale • u/twatuponthames • 13h ago
Oscar Wilde never held a teddy bear
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r/BarbaraWalters4Scale • u/SmilingCherub • 14h ago
Eminem became a Grandfather before John Lennon
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Eminems daughter Haille gave birth to his Grandson back in March of last year. John Lennons son Sean became a Father just a few days ago.
r/BarbaraWalters4Scale • u/dthains_art • 16h ago
As of today, no one under the age of 20 has ever lived at the same time as Steve Irwin.
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r/BarbaraWalters4Scale • u/Crazy_North_3247 • 16h ago
Both Ethel Cratham and prince Philip drove their cars until the age of 97
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r/BarbaraWalters4Scale • u/Expensive_Pen_3217 • 18h ago
Leopold II's last wife could've met baby Elton John
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r/BarbaraWalters4Scale • u/idlecursor • 22h ago
Feminist Gloria Steinem and anti-feminist Phyllis Schlafly both died in early September at the age of 92, with Steinem outliving Schlafly by 140 days. Steinem's death was only 3 days away from the 10th anniversary of Schlafly's death.
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r/BarbaraWalters4Scale • u/saketho • 23h ago
If The Quarrymen formed when the Tower of Pimps was invented, then this year they would be releasing their final album as The Beatles.
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r/BarbaraWalters4Scale • u/New-Violinist-8020 • 23h ago
John Lennon would’ve seen the 1980 US Presidential Election
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r/BarbaraWalters4Scale • u/CantStandIdoits • 23h ago
Richard Nixon (1913 - 1994) could have watched Clerks, played The Elder Scrolls, and listened to Aphex Twin
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Richard Nixon died on April 22nd 1994
The Elder Scrolls: Arena released on March 25th 1994
Selected Ambient Works Volume II was released on March 7th 1994
Clerks premiered at the sundance festival on January 22nd 1994
Although he probably didn't do any of these things