Random Facts About... Time Conception
Here are some facts that will twist your vision of time! If you want your sense of time to be destroyed, definitely check it out! 1. France was still executing people by guillotine when "Star Wars" came out. The movie premiered in theaters in May 1977. The last execution by guillotine took place on September 10th of the same year. 2. Harvard University was founded before there was even calculus. In fact Harvard is the oldest higher education institution in the US, founded in 1636. Calculus wasn’t derived until later in the 17th century, with the work of Gottfried Leibniz and Isaac Newton. 3. Speaking about prestigious universities, Oxford University is actually older than Aztec civilization. Oxford University was opened by 1249, while the Aztec civilization as we know it began with the founding of Tenochtitlán in 1325. 4. If the history of Earth were compressed into a single year, modern humans would appear on December 31st, at about 11:00pm. The...