A selection of interesting facts about time (12 photos)

Salvador Dali and Michael Jackson - contemporaries? Great Sphinx Was it already over 500 years before mammoths became completely extinct? All this sounds extremely unbelievable. But if you study the question carefully, then you can learn a lot of interesting facts about time that can knock you off sense. Well, let's figure it out together in our new collection.

Salvador Dali and Michael Jackson - contemporaries





American singer and dancer who has been dubbed the King of Pop Michael Jackson was born in 1958. About the same time The famous Spanish surrealist painter Salvador Dali got married. That's why 2 these legends can rightly be considered contemporaries.

Cleopatra lived closer to the founding of Microsoft than to the building of the Great Pyramid of Giza



It would seem that since Cleopatra was the queen of Egypt, she had a hand in the construction of the legendary pyramids. However, the Great pyramid of Giza, which is the largest surviving Egyptian pyramid, was built around 2570 BC. e. Cleopatra she was born in 69 BC. e., that is, after 2501 years. A company Microsoft was founded in 1975 - 2,044 years after its birth queens.

London was founded 1,100 years before the birth of Genghis Khan





The first documentary mention of the capital of England London refers to 65-80 AD. e. And the date of its foundation is considered to be 47 AD. e. The birth of the Emperor of the Mongol Empire Genghis Khan dates back to 1162 year. Thus, about 1,100 years elapsed between these two events.

Paramount Pictures was founded during the Ottoman Empire.



The well-known film company Paramount Pictures was founded in 1912, but under the name Famous Players Film Company. At that time The Ottoman Empire still existed, and its population numbered about 24 million people.

The Great Sphinx was already over 500 years old before mammoths became completely extinct.



It is generally accepted that mammoths died out about 10 thousand years back. However, a small population survived until 2000 BC. e. on the Wrangel Island. By this time, in Egypt, the Great Sphinx has already celebrated its 500th anniversary. It is believed to have been built around in 2550 BC. e.

160 years passed between the appearance of the world's first photography and the creation of Photoshop



The first photograph that has survived to this day is considered to be “View from windows at Le Gras. French inventor Nicephore Niepce in 1827 on exposed the bitumen plate for 8 hours to get image. 160 years later, in 1987, the first version was developed legendary computer program Photoshop.

The suitcase on wheels was invented later than the first manned flight into space.



The first manned flight into space took place on April 12, 1961. AT On this day, Yuri Gagarin made one revolution around the globe, which, undoubtedly became a gigantic technological breakthrough for mankind. However, such a simple thing as a suitcase on wheels was invented only 11 years later, in 1972, by Bernard Sadow.

Mikhail Lomonosov was a famous scientist, but still did not know anything about the existence of dinosaurs



The famous natural scientist, physicist and chemist Mikhail Lomonosov was born in 1711. In all his life he had never heard of that the earth was once dominated by dinosaurs. And not at all because that an encyclopedia about huge reptiles was hard to get in the library.

It’s just that dinosaurs haven’t been “discovered” yet, or rather, didn’t exist the term itself. Various fossils have been found around the world, but no one knew the nature of their origin. And only in 1841 one English paleontologist first coined the word "dinosaur".

When Harvard University opened, no one had even heard of calculus because it has not yet been invented



Harvard Universityem was founded in 1636 to this day is one of the most prestigious educational institutions in the world. In spite of this, at first none of the students and teachers knew that is mathematical analysis. All because Isaac Newton and Gottfried Leibniz developed this method independently only towards the end. XVII century.

Since sliced ​​bread first appeared on the market, the world's population has almost quadrupled.



In 1928, bread was first made and sold in the form of sliced slices. This day was remembered as "the greatest breakthrough in the bakery industry". Around this time, the world's population was 2 billion people. Since then, the population has almost quadrupled and now stands at almost 8 billion people.

The Voyager 2 space probe had already flown further than Saturn when the home bread machine was invented



The first automatic bread maker for home use was released in Japan in 1986. In the same year, the space probe Voyager 2, launched into space 9 years earlier, has already approached the 7th planet of the solar system - Uranus.

The famous jewelry company Tiffany has existed longer than modern Italy



It is unlikely that there will be at least one woman who has not heard about the brand. Tiffany. The company specializes in luxury jewelry. It was founded in 1837 by Charles Lewis Tiffany. founding year, or rather, the proclamation of the Kingdom of Italy, it is considered to be 1861.