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[–] [email protected] 93 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

You could also write a story about a cowboy and samurai drinking Coke and playing Nintendo (cards), and it would be historically accurate.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Someone gets a fax and the scene stays period accurate

[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 weeks ago

If they had fax machines in Star Wars, it would still be period accurate.

I still don't understand how fax hasn't died yet.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

What's wild to me is that devices capable of measuring the length of something to an accuracy of one millionth of an inch existed decades before the American Civil War.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

It's called Samurai Western and it is an underrated gem of a game

[–] [email protected] 63 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

pharaohs and mammoths existed at the same time

This one got me. I always thought mammoths died out before major civilizations.

[–] [email protected] 50 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

They continued on quite long in an isolated place in northern Siberia. But since it's an isolated population of mammoths, it's kinda cheaty because this comparison sentence always makes people think "oh mammoths roamed eurasia still when the Pharaos were around!"

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

They were also miniaturized mammoths ... so were they really "mammoths"?

[–] [email protected] 47 points 2 weeks ago

This is the kind of cheat sheet that someone from Futurama would use to design a "typical day for a 19th century person" animatronic edutainment display.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

These are indeed fun facts

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

And they're not factoids because definitionally a factoid resembles a fact but isn't!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago

I always thought "factito" (little fact) would work better than "factoid". Or as OP would put it, "facttto".

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago

Language has long since moved on from that definition of "factoid." The "-oid" suffix, which used to mean "like" or "resembling," has been assumed to mean ", but diminutive" (in words like "meteoroid" and "asteroid") or ", but different than what you expected" (in words like "humanoid" or "ellipsoid"). And because of that, the word "factoid" sounds like it should mean "a diminutive or unexpected fact." A snackt, if you will.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Nintendo existed before the fall of the Ottoman empire.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago

I told this to my wife, and she said they started in the 1800's. I said I think it was 1889; I was correct 😎

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Wait, Pocahontas was real?!

[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

There were 12 Pocahontases?!

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Not to be confused with Pocahentai

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

Risky click of the day

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Seriously, I've been wracking my brain on what historical figure I've somehow missed that fits the acronym ttto. Please tell me I'm not forgetting something really obvious?

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 weeks ago

Picasso passed away in the 70s.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Pocahontas was a child sex slave!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

William Shakespeare probably wasnt

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Last fact is wrong. Aztlan is very ancient.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 2 weeks ago

Good thing the statement is not about Aztlan, but specifically the Aztec Empire, which was formed in 1428.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

How long would it take for a person to travel from Greece to China in the 5th century BCE?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 weeks ago

By walking maybe 15 km a day on average (a full day's work for a modern subsistence farmer), around 3 years by foot. Obviously this is way easier with any amount of vehicles. Someone in a chariot could hypothetically travel something like 100km a day and make the trip in 4-6 months. This, of course, all relies on someone having a ton of resources including knowledge of roads.