- The American Revolution began and ended within Mozart’s lifetime.
- Harvard University was founded before calculus was developed.
- The Simpsons first aired before the Soviet Union collapsed.
- Abraham Lincoln was alive when the fax machine was invented.
- Ruby Bridges became the first Black child to integrate an all-white elementary school in the South in 1960—and she is still alive today.
- Harriet Tubman was born during Thomas Jefferson’s lifetime and died during Ronald Reagan’s.
- In 2002, astronomers determined that the average color of the universe is a pale beige, nicknamed “cosmic latte.”
- The “M” on M&M’s candies has been printed in white since 1954; before that, it was black.
Facts by Sean McVeigh, factologist.
