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EPISODE · Jan 8, 2025 · 29 MIN

475: Historical juxtapositions and amusing coincidences from history.

from Beer and Conversation with Pigweed and Crowhill · host Pigweed and Crowhill

P&C drink and review a piney IPA, then discuss strange juxtapositions in history. Did you know ... * George Washington didn't know about dinosaurs. * Sharks are older than trees. * The 10th president of the U.S. has a grandson who is alive today. * Woolly mammoths were still alive while the Egyptians were building the pyramids. * The Oregon Trail was first used the same year the fax machine was invented. * The University of Oxford is older than the Aztec Empire. * The guillotine was still France's official method of execution when Star Wars debuted. * The Roman Empire fell only 40 years before Christopher Columbus landed in the Americas. * The Great Pyramid was older to the Romans than the Romans are to us. And more ... Join us for this fun review of strange coincidences and connections in history.

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