Fact Pack

Timeline Destruction

Eight facts that snap your sense of when things happened.

We carry around a mental timeline of how the world fits together. These eight verified facts quietly rip it up. Read in order, or jump straight to the one that sounds most impossible.

Start here Woolly mammoths outlived the Great Pyramid of Giza. Mammoths were still around after the pyramid. Open Fact →

#2 T. rex lived closer in time to humans than to Stegosaurus. Read → #3 Oxford University is older than the Aztec Empire. Read → #4 The gold on Earth was forged in space before it became part of our planet. Read → #5 The Eastern Roman Empire and the Aztec Empire overlapped. Read → #6 Nintendo was founded the same year the Eiffel Tower was completed. Read → #7 A 2,000-year-old Greek device is often called the world's oldest analog computer. Read → #8 The oldest known stone tools are older than the genus Homo. Read →