34 Mind-Blowing Facts That Will Completely Rewrite Your Sense of Time and History
Ever wondered how your brain’s timeline sometimes feels like it’s glitching — like, how can two totally unrelated historical events both be ancient history and somehow recent all at once? It’s wild, right? We’re usually pretty spot-on about guessing when something happened if we lived through it, but when it comes to history, our mental map gets all jumbled because those events are stored as isolated snippets, not a continuous story. Enter Adorian Deck, aka The Facts Guy, a TikTok sensation who’s shredded our usual sense of time with mind-bending facts that mash up history in a way that’s as baffling as it is fascinating. Curious to see which historical moments are sneaking around the same corner of the calendar, but never realized it? You’re in for a treat — get ready to have your perception of time totally skewed! LEARN MORE
Article created by: Jurgita Dominauskaitė
People usually have a pretty good intuition when it comes to time. Even if we don’t remember exactly when a thing happened, we can give a pretty precise guess if it was a week ago, a couple of months or a few years ago. This might be explained by the fact that we lived through those events and we just feel how long ago they were.
But it is quite different when it comes to things that we learnt from history. We learn different events as separate facts and not as a continuous story so even if they happened at the same time, it might not click in our heads.
But when they are placed side by side, it is very surprising to see them in a new perspective. TikTok user Adorian Deck, also known as The Facts Guy, who has a following of almost 4 million people, dedicated a whole series to facts that mess with our perception of time and we collected the facts that his followers were interested to hear the most. And if you want to know even more similar facts, here is an older Bored Panda article that you might like.
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