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What is something that sounds 100% false but is actually 100% true? (lemmy.ca)

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[–] Huffkin@feddit.uk 12 points 3 years ago (5 children)

Oxford University is older than the Aztec empire.

Oxford University founded in 1326, Aztec empire ~1428-1521

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[–] tristophe@lemmy.world 3 points 3 years ago

Don’t mean to pick, but Oxford was founded in 1096 and Cambridge in 1209.

I worked for cambridge in 2009 and got a nice little 800 year badge

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[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 1 point 3 years ago

And some of the colleges of Oxford University are older than the university. Merton College was founded in 1264.

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[–] sunbeam60@lemmy.one 1 point 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago)

My local pub is older than the USA.

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[–] BastingChemina@slrpnk.net 1 point 3 years ago

Cleopatra lived closer in time to us than the construction on the great pyramids.

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[–] Gnubeutel@feddit.de 0 points 3 years ago (1 child)

Wait, you're saying that the Aztec empire was just 64 years old when Columbus discovered America and ships with conquistadors followed to butcher and enslave everyone?

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[–] icesentry@lemmy.ml 0 points 3 years ago (1 child)

Yeah, I've heard similar things in the past and I'm always confused by it.

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[–] Erk@cdda.social 2 points 3 years ago*

There were people there prior to the Aztec empire conquering them. The Aztec empire is just a specific government that ruled the area at that specific time.

The Napoleonic empire, for comparison, only lasted 1804-1815 (with a hole in the middle).

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