Historical coincidences that will boggle your mind
Are you absolutely sure you understand how time works?
We bet you don't. Because when you learn that Beethoven and Napoleon lived at the same time, that Picasso died while Star Wars was being filmed, and that Nintendo was created while Tolstoy was still alive, your brain starts to melt.
We're used to perceiving history as something distant and separate, but these facts break all the usual boundaries.
Cleopatra is closer to the iPhone than to the construction of the pyramids.
The guillotine was in operation the same year the first Star Wars was released.
And the workers building the Eiffel Tower were already drinking Coca-Cola.
Watch the video, and at the end, tell us in the comments which fact surprised you the most.
Let's see whose perception of time has completely lost its way.