Things In The Present Day That Are Very Older Than You Can Imagine

Central heating system was a thing back in the Roman empire.

The invention of lighter was before the invention of the match stick.

Flushing down the toilet was a practice since the Indus valley civilization.

Beer was invented before bread was.

No idea when the Oxford University was found but it was operational in 1096.

Sharks have existed even before trees did.

The start of Nintendo. 1889.

The Fax machine was invented before the Telephone was. 1843.

Just how the Romans are ancient to the modern society, Egyptians were ancient to Romans.

Even though the contact lenses were made in 1888. The idea of it was by Leonardo Da Vinci in 1508.

People wore wristwatches by 1571.

Oreos are older than chocolate chip cookies and much older than a century!

The Aux cable head was invented in 1877. It has been modified a bit but basically the same thing.

If you think the younger generations are getting dumber. Socrates used to worry that the younger generations wrote down information without memorizing it.

Escalators were operational by 1859.

This was a skull from 5000BC with a successful brain surgery.

Human civilization from the time homo-sapiens did not exist, is  million years. It is a very long time. But the dinosaurs roamed the earth for 165 million years. So, that's a huge time on Earth.

At least 300 years older than the Great pyramids of Egypt.

Social platforms. Greeks had slaves to deliver their messages among their friends to keep in touch.

Oxford university existed before the Aztecs did.

In 1783, the first sparklin drink was made. It was sparkling water.

Sharks have been there before the formation of the rings of Saturn.

Concrete was used by the Mayan, Egyptians and the Romans as well.

People have been saying that the world is ending since a long time back. Even before proper vocabulary was used by the mass crowd.

In the ancient times the life expectancy was 35. You would naturally think of very young people in the society. But that number was made up due to the high rate of infant deaths at that time.