Friday, October 30, 2020

Things That Are Way Newer Than People Think


Life looks a lot different now than it did even twenty or thirty years ago. As recently as fifty years ago, even scientists had a hugely different idea of how the world worked. And a hundred years ago? Screw that, no one wants to live in a world without functioning toilet paper or high fives. On the flipside, there's also tons of stuff that's way older than people think.

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Text - BetterThanHorus 40.1k points · 13 hours ago 2 e 32 Hallways weren't widely used until the 1800s. Rooms would just open into the next room

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Text - gawro1jd 32.0k points · 14 hours ago 3 4 VorR 2 401k retirement accounts. Didn't start until about 1980... aka we have yet to see an entire generation actually retire with a 401k.

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Text - blackday44 27.5k points · 15 hours ago 3 2 Toilet paper as we know it- soft, fluffy, white. Toilet paper that was free of wood splinters didn't exist until the 1920s.

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Text - Mahaloth 25.4k points · 15 hours ago 62 VOTED High fives date from 1977.

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Text - Zingeronix 20.9k points · 13 hours ago · edited 10 hours ago 3 2 3 4 & 3 More The now commonly-accepted theory that a large meteor caused, or was a major cause of, the extinction of the dinosaurs. When you watch Fantasia (1940) and see the Rite of Spring sequence, where-in you witness the extinction of the dinosaurs, you see that it's portrayed as a great draught which was followed by a series of massive earthquakes. That's because at that time, this was the most accepted idea of what cau

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Text - Canadian47 45.1k points · 14 hours ago 2 e & 6 More Machu Picchu. The Tower of London pre-dates it by almost 400 years. 2

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Text - Gneissisnice 20.5k points · 13 hours ago 9 2 3 2 The theory of plate tectonics. It pretty much makes up the entire backbone of modern geology, yet it wasn't actually accepted until the 1960s. Alfred Wegener proposed his theory of continental drift in 1915 but couldn't explain the mechanism behind it so his theory was dismissed. Over the next few decades, the evidence of crustal movement became undeniable and plate tectonics developed as a theory. It's just crazy to me that geologists were

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Text - BigBrown609 1.6k points · 11 hours ago Cleopatra. She was closer to seeing the iPhone than the pyramids being built

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Text - One-Light 20.2k points · 14 hours ago Antibiotics. People in the generation of your grand parents could have died from stubbing a toe.

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Text - Orvan-Rabbit 16.0k points · 13 hours ago Wearing whatever you want in college. Before the 1960's everyone are required to wear suits and ties and other formal gear.

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Text - stupidlyugly 14.8k points · 13 hours ago I'm old enough to remember black and white televisions still being commonplace, and remember when remote controls were brand new technology.

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Text - Andromeda321 14.5k points · 12 hours ago · edited 50 minutes a A 4 4 @4 & 23 More Astronomer here! Recent research has shown that Saturn's rings are less than 100 million years old or so, which is pretty crazy when you realize the solar system formed about 4.5 billion years ago! For context, sharks have been around four times longer than Saturn's rings, which is amazing to think about! We know this btw from recent Cassini data relating to the mass in the rings and the amount of dust versu

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Text - FancyStegosaurus 14.3k points · 14 hours ago 2 Not super new but the match was invented after the lighter.

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Text - GrimThursday 13.1k points · 11 hours ago New Zealand! Its indigenous population only arrived there about 800 years ago, despite Australia just across the Tasman having been inhabited for 75,000 plus years

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Text - zeteo_galeneian 12.3k points · 12 hours ago Italy wasn't a unified single country until 1871. Before that, it was a patchwork of small kingdoms and city- states with different local dialects and languages. As late as 1861, only 2.5 percent of Italians spoke what is now known as standard Italian, which before then was the Florentine dialect of Tuscan.

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Text - yeahwellokay 11.5k points · 13 hours ago & S Democrats being blue and Republicans being red only dates back to around the year 2000. VOTED solidsnake885 6.0k points · 13 hours ago The colors used to alternate each election. But the extended discussion of "red states and blue states" during the monthlong debacle in 2000 cemented it in people's minds.

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Text - Peterisaweseome 10.7k points · 10 hours ago What hit me the other day: Germany. It was only reunified 30 years ago.

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Text - buadach2 10.7k points · 14 hours ago S The knowledge that other galaxies exist other than our own Milky Way in 1925.

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Text - Hyphum 9.8k points · 12 hours ago Ciabatta bread goes all the way back to the early 1980s.

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Text - VinnieMcVince 9.7k points · 12 hours ago · edited 2 hours ago e 32 Grass. It's a relatively new plant. Grass happened after dinosaurs went extinct. Mr. Stegosaurus never nommed on grasses.

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Text - clephantom 9.3k points · 13 hours ago Calling 9-1-1. It only started in 1968

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Text - -EDGAR- 8.9k points · 13 hours ago O 2 9 Wheels weren't added to luggage until the 1970s. We literally landed on the moon before thinking of adding wheels to heavy cases we had to lug around, which is incredible to think of.

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Text - cutelyaware 8.5k points · 12 hours ago 3 vor 2 Women with credit cards in their own names. I think that was in the 1970s.

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Text - youcallthataheadshot 8.3k points · 11 hours ago The knowledge that it's bad to drink when pregnant. Only became widely known in the 80s.

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Text - NicroHobak 7.3k points · 14 hours ago S The addition of "under God" in the US Pledge of Allegiance (1954).

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Text - mynonymouse 3.8k points · 13 hours ago The modern interstate highway system in the US. Modern divided highways date to the 1970s. Before then, going cross country involved a patchwork of "country roads," many of which were just two lanes, I-10 wasn't finished until the 1990s, when the last stretch in Phoenix was completed. Before that, it diverted through city streets.

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Text - kqatl 3.7k points · 14 hours ago 31 here. GPS. Hope to think I'm not that old but old enough to remember a shift in technology. I posted a reply below saying "Remember re-setting your trip odometer and looking at the road nameplates while shuffling badly printed directions?" Mapquest was the shit. I have fond memories of driving a $1000 5 speed jeep while trying to juggle talking on a green screen nokia brick and shuffling through 6 pages of directions printed on an epson running out of i

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Text - CrotalusHorridus 3.0k points · 12 hours ago In high school in the 1990s learning about basics of biology The discovery of the basis of DNA structures seemed like ancient history The people they discovered it were still alive then

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Text - FunnymanDOWN 2.6k points · 12 hours ago · edited 11 hours ago S Diamond rings being an engagement gesture. Only arose in the 1940's because diamonds were becoming less valuable and the powers at be needed to not let that happen.

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