Come to think of it, we spend the first 18 years of our lives catching up on what has happened since today.

With history being as vast as it is, important events are bound to overlap.

Normally, most people would never bother trying to find connections between two totally unrelated historic events… Unless you’re a history buff.

But when we do make the comparison, the disparities or similarities between two such events are big enough to leave us in utter disbelief.

Take a look at these 30 pairs of historic events that will probably leave the historic time-line you know in jumbles.

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Yellowstone National Park is only about a year younger than Germany

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Abraham Lincoln was assassinated a few months before the formation of the Secret Service.

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The Titanic sank the same year that Oreos were introduced in America.

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Charlie Chaplin and Hitler, too, were born in the same year. 1889

That should be enough to get your head spinning.


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Nick Guli

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