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

submitted 1 year ago by lemonadebunny@lemmy.ca to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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[–] Huffkin@feddit.uk 3 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Oxford University is older than the Aztec empire.

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

[–] tristophe@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] Summzashi@lemmy.one 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Thats 900 years dumbass

Edit: you got epic trolled by summzashi!!!

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

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

[–] sunbeam60@lemmy.one 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

My local pub is older than the USA.

[–] BastingChemina@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 year ago

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

[–] Gnubeutel@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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?

[–] icesentry@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] Erk@cdda.social 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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).