45 Time Comparisons That Pretty Much Broke Our Brains

45 Time Comparisons That Pretty Much Broke Our Brains

The passage of time. What a wild thing, right? You set a clock, and it just keeps ticking. For instance, did you know that sharks are older trees? Also, we're sorry to break it to you, but you got older while reading this sentence. We can commiserate, though, we got older while writing it. Time keeps passing, and we keep getting surprised by it. 

So today, we're going to totally break our brains by looking into some of the weirdest time comparisons ever. Like, when you think of Ancient Egypt? Do you think of the pyramids and Cleopatra? Turns out they were centuries apart. Sorry, we don't want to spoil the whole article. We're just really excited. It doesn't even matter how much we aged while writing this sentence. Getting old isn't even that crazy, compared to all this stuff.

Here are some of the wildest comparisons showing that time doesn't make any damn sense.

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