On: 'Jonathan' is the oldest land animal on Earth

[lifestyleguru]

> It’s more like US people look at a couple 100yo buildings and say stuff like “wow this place has a lot of history!”

You are overgeneralizing. In much of Europe plenty of architecture was erected after 1945, and most of architecture around and after 1900.

[pablobaz → lifestyleguru]

Or the New River in London - an artificial waterway opened in 1613.

[loloquwowndueo → lifestyleguru]

And then you have things like the “new bridge” in Paris which is 420 years old.

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The most common surname in Czech Republic is Novák meaning "new guy" but it could be because a guy was the new guy in town in the 1600s.