30 Interesting Historical Facts That Will Change Your View On The World We Live In

Technically, a samurai from Japan could've sent a fax to Abraham Lincoln.

Damjan

• Published in Interesting
• November 21, 2021

Gen X, millennials, and younger generations were born into the "modern" world, with TV, music videos, human rights, United Nations, Red Cross, mixed schools and neighborhoods, etc. These are all things we view as implied and don't think much about them.

For us, it is natural that all people are equal and have the same rights. We don't understand that just 50 years ago, people were fighting for fundamental rights or that the first supersonic fighter jet took off less than 40 years after the Wright brothers and their 120-foot flight.

Then, 60 years later, the man landed on the Moon. A novelist Zack Budryk asked his friends on Twitter to share some interesting historical overlaps that might just make you see the world in an entirely different light.

The replies came pouring in. For example, did you know that a samurai could have technically sent a fax to US president Abraham Lincoln?

"Electric Printing Telegraph," invented back in 1843 by Alexander Bain, was the world's first faxing device. Amazing, right?

We have selected 30 of the most amazing historical facts that will make you view our world totally differently. We know you will love them. Read on to find out more.

1. Quite an improvement. But a lot more work has to be done.

2. Just 60 years ago...And the child needed police protection..

3. It aged nicely...

4. Same sex marriages and the Confederacy...

5. Yes, it is totally unacceptable. I thought it was just me...

6. Extreme injustice...

7. Telegram and Twitter...

8. Plausible and interesting....

9. Yes, he would be more relaxed...

10. Queen Elizabeth and USA

11. He was to old to enlist when the Japs hit Perl Harbor.

12. Legendary Betty White....

13. That's a long time...

14. Memory needs refreshing...

15. Jimmy Carter - born in 1924

16. Spain and USA

17. The University of Oxford and the Inca Empire

18. Ha! Awesome!

19. Back to the Future reboot...

20. What would they see?

21. It was quite a year...

22. Silent and digital....

23. The most recent change, from 49 stars to 50, occurred in 1960 when the present design was chosen, after Hawaii gained statehood in August 1959. Before that, the admission of Alaska in January 1959 prompted the debut of a short-lived 49-star flag.

Obama was born in 1961 in Hawaii.

24. Segregation was outlawed by the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Voting Rights Act of 1965, and the Fair Housing Act of 1968.

25. It was a long battle.

26. Man, that wasn't such a along time ago...

27. Woolly mammoths and the pyramids

28. Generations in war

29. We are new, but we have still managed to cause such damage to our planet...

30. Biplanes and supersonic

Wow, these posts really give us another perspective on history. We somehow conically believe it was such a long time ago because - well, it's history.

But when you hear that the last person born into slavery died just a few decades ago or that our grandparents went to segregated schools, it shows that the modern society (or what we believe this society we live in is) is so new.

It's practically a baby. That's why it needs our support to thrive.

Damjan