4. Marilyn Monroe and Queen Elizabeth II

I told you that these surprising facts about the world will alter your perception of time, or at least they did it to me already. Did you know that one of the most attractive women in the world, Marilyn Monroe, and one of the most loved women in the United Kingdom, Queen Elizabeth II, were born in the same year?

Queen Elizabeth was born on April 21st, 1926, and the famous actress, Norma Jeane Mortenson, as her real name was, was born less than two months later, on June 1st, 1926.

You might not consider these women to have been part of the same era since they had such different childhoods, their lives were completely opposite, and the blonde bombshell died when she was so young, but they were contemporaneous.