Each of us has our own ideas about time and history, which, if you look closely, run counter to reality. Let's look at such paradoxes of time and be surprised! 
If Back to the Future took place in 2020, Marty would travel back to 1990. And the song he'd play at his high school prom would probably be "Smells Like Teen Spirit" by Nirvana. 
Harriet the tortoise, who died in 2006, saw Charles Darwin in person. 
Woolly mammoths were still around when the pyramids of Egypt were built. The pyramids were built around 2600 BC, and the last woolly mammoths became extinct around 1650 BC. 
Leonardo da Vinci was 40 years old when Columbus discovered America. 
George Washington died in 1799. The first fossilized remains of a dinosaur were discovered in 1824. George Washington did not know about the existence of dinosaurs. 
Pocahontas and Shakespeare lived at the same time. 
Grease was made in 1978, about a 1958 high school romance. If it were made today, it would be about the year 2000. 
Nokia was founded the same year Lincoln was assassinated. 
Orville Wright, one of the two inventors of the airplane, was still alive when Hiroshima and Nagasaki were bombed in 1945. He died in 1948. 
Oxford University is older than the Aztec Empire. 
Legendary silent film actor Charlie Chaplin was able to watch the first Star Wars film. 
Three candidates in the 2020 US presidential election - Sanders, Biden and Bloomberg - were born closer to the US Civil War than to this year. 
Kurt Cobain has been dead longer than he's been alive. He lived for 9907 days, and May 20, 2021 marks the 9908th day since his death on April 5, 1994. 
The Top Gun characters singing Great Balls Of Fire in 1986 look like they would sing Ice Ice Baby now. 
Mel Brooks, born in 1926 and still active today, has pioneered the entire history of sound feature films. 
Harriet Tubman lived at the same time as both Thomas Jefferson and Ronald Reagan. 
Betty Marion White was born in 1922, and the first BMW car rolled off the production line in 1928. 
AC/DC's original lead singer Bon Scott was born in 1946 and died in 1980 when he was 34 years old. Current AC/DC singer Brian Johnson joined them the year Scott died. As a result, Brian Johnson has been playing with AC/DC longer than Bon Scott has been alive on Earth.
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