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TIL the pyramids are closer in time to stegosaurus than we are (quokk.au)

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[–] [email protected] 131 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Personally I laughed out loud because I expected it to be one of those "mind blowing" facts like "Cleopatra was born closer to the release of the iPhone than to the construction of the pyramids," but OP turned it into a shitpost by making a really obvious statement instead. It subverted my expectations. Barvo, OP, brvao

[–] [email protected] 66 points 1 week ago (1 children)

There's always this one:

There are more hydrogen atoms in a single molecule of water than there are stars in the entire solar system.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

😂

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Just to clarify - was your example real?

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[–] [email protected] 70 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Yep! The Great Pyramid of Giza was completed about 2400 years before Cleopatra was born, whereas the first iPhone was released about 2074 years after Cleopatra was born.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago

The Cleopatra one? Yes, I'm pretty sure that's real