If the last four years have taught us anything, it is that time is a flat circle.
Still, it’s completely crazy when you realize that two people or things you never expected to share the same timeline actually do.
When Populism Updates posed this question on Twitter this week, some of the responses were truly wild.
Here is the question –
What were the craziest two people/things to coexist simultaneously in history?
— Populism Updates (@PopulismUpdates) 15 August 2024
You have added a suggestion.
You could be born before the invention of the airplane and be a fan of the Smashing Pumpkins for 12 years before you turn 100.
— Populism Updates (@PopulismUpdates) 15 August 2024
Amazing news.
These are some of the other most mind-blowing answers.
1.
In France, people were still executed by guillotine even after ABBA won the Eurovision Song Contest https://t.co/3VfUUa8blw
— Ken Wynn ️ (@highfielder80) 17 August 2024
2.
Rosa Parks could have seen both Shrek 1 and Shrek 2. I just can’t believe they existed at the same time
— Aidan Riggs (@aidanriggs_) 15 August 2024
3.
5 former slaves survived the moon landing.https://t.co/dhKwj3xU1e
– Michael Crush (@MichaelCrush73) 15 August 2024
4.
Anyone reading this tweet overlaps with the last civil war widow (who died in December 2020 after Covid!) https://t.co/cglUdrgeHH
— Michael Nielsen (@michael_nielsen) 15 August 2024
5.
Neil Armstrong was 17 and Buzz Aldrin was 18 when Orville Wright died.
— I was told about Gin (@Iwastoldofgin) 15 August 2024
6.
Of course, there’s the classic story that between 1843 and 1865 Abraham Lincoln, fax machines and samurai coexisted on Earth. But what I find most shocking is the fact that the last Magdalene Laundry in Ireland closed two weeks after Tupac’s murder. https://t.co/UoUHm0moE6
— The Author, Séamas O’Reilly (@shockproofbeats) 16 August 2024
7.
Bertrand Russell was friends with the Beatles. He remembered his grandfather, who met Napoleon as a young man.
– Friend of the Talking Bird (@DrugGovoruna) 15 August 2024
8.
King Michael I of Romania lived long enough to play himself in Hearts of Iron 4. https://t.co/auhJrfUQID pic.twitter.com/KIUaUYocWI
— John III Sobieski (@JohnIVSobieski) 15 August 2024
9.
This old man, Samuel J. Seymour and television in 1956! https://t.co/wbZsMvcU3f pic.twitter.com/g0Sz8q3dEz
— Cameron Yarde Jnr (@CameronYardeJnr) 18 August 2024
10.
Ernst Jünger could theoretically have seen Neon Genesis Evangelion https://t.co/WUEu1BgdQ3 pic.twitter.com/La0yKFI0JP
— Swann Marcus (@SwannMarcus89) 15 August 2024
11.
China’s last imperial eunuch might have just heard the Spice Girls’ debut album. https://t.co/yWUNT4Tejp
– Yuan Yi Zhu (@yuanyi_z) 16 August 2024
12.
There is a very, very small but not zero percent chance that Shirley Temple has played Dark Souls. https://t.co/oSjeuVcbaH pic.twitter.com/oOTJvjrfmn
— Pop Arena (@pop_arena) 15 August 2024
13.
This is a US Civil War veteran posing in front of a fighter jet in 1955 https://t.co/3FtLVZe3Wp pic.twitter.com/LR7OvA4VqI
— Neil Renic (@NC_Renic) 16 August 2024
14.
The woman Obama meets (in 2011) is the little girl from the painting https://t.co/uvkUX33gc4 pic.twitter.com/8KQEvs3xZ0
– Maia (@maiamindel) 15 August 2024
