The University of Oxford is older than the Aztec Empire.
It sounds like nonsense, but it's a fact. Classes at Oxford began in 1096. At that time theology was already taught there, Aristotle was read and manuscripts were written. And the Aztec capital Tenochtitlan - a city on the water with pyramids and canals - was only founded in 1325. The difference is 229 years. While the exams were held at Oxford for 200 years, the Aztecs simply did not exist as a civilization. And by the time Columbus sailed to America, Oxford was already older than the USA is to us now. And Oxford University is older than the Mongol Empire, the Ottoman Empire, the Russian Empire and also the British Empire.