What’s older than we think?

11. Nintendo. This company was actually created in 1889.

– Andramalot

12. Beer is thought to be older than bread.

It’s much easier to fill a jar with wheat and water, let it ferment, and brew beer than it is to grind grain, mix it, and bake it.

– 4dseeall

13. I was really surprised to discover when Oxford university was founded. They don’t know the year for sure, but they know there was definitely teaching going on there in 1096.

– princess_mothership

14. Oreos.

I was shocked to learn that Oreos predate chocolate chip cookies, sliced bread, and my 100-year-old Great Grandmother.

– TheSilentShane

15. Brain Surgery. In 1997, archaeologists discovered an ancient tomb in the French village of Ensisheim from 5,000 BC, which contained the decomposing body of a 50-year-old man with holes in his skull. After a thorough examination, it was determined that the holes, located near the frontal lobe, were caused by a type of surgery, not by forced trauma, and the operation appears to have been successful because the wounds healed before the patient’s death. To this day, however, researchers cannot say for sure what exactly the surgery was trying to fix.

– Sani

16. National Geographic was founded in 1888.

– limgly

17. Contact lenses.

Leonardo da Vinci had the idea of contact lenses in 1508 and the first successful contact lenses were made in 1888.

– -eDgAR-

18. Wristwatches. Queen Elizabeth, I got one in 1571.

– Aqquila89

19. The Aux connector that we still use for headphones and speakers was invented in 1877. There have been improvements since, but the basics of it are pretty much the same.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phone_connector_(audio)

– given2fly_

20. Stonehenge.

It predates the oldest Pyramid in Egypt by nearly 300 years.

– squeeeeenis