Much the same story occurs in the One Thousand And One Nights. “How Abu Hassan Brake Wind” (Burton’s translation)
In Fury, black soldiers are shown fighting along with white soldiers when *everyone *knows that they fought in their own separate units. But the reality is that at the time the movie is set, commanders were desperate for warm bodies and often pulled black soldiers out of support duties or rear-echelon units to replace casualties.
Who knew that ancient Roman women wore bikinis for playing vollyball? Yet there is clear proof that at least some did.
Some people have claimed that the I © Big Red sign seen in Secretariat would have been impossible prior to the creation of I © NY in 1977. As if some individual couldn’t have come up with such a thing on their own in '73. Who’s to say such a sign didn’t inspire Mr. Glaser four years later?
Older, you say? How about Sumeria, 1900 B.C.? The world’s oldest known joke goes something like this:
“Something which has never occurred since time immemorial; a young woman did not fart in her husband’s lap.”
Here’s one that’s not really an anachronism, but still sorta counts: In Wargames, Matthew Broderik’s character escapes Cheyenne Mountain by blending in with a tour group from Alabama. A lot of people thought it was silly to suggest that NORAD, the most highly sensitive military installation in the USA, would host guided tours – but for several decades, they actually did. (Not since 9/11, though.)
Guys, I don’t think Diceman was surprised that the concept of passing gas is older than the 20th century - he was surprised that the specific word fart has been around for a few centuries.
I’m not talking about the joke – I was commenting on the age of the word “fart”, which “vert” is clearly a form of. What they called it in Sumeria is irrelevant to that.
Oliver Cromwell (1599-1658) referred to the Magna Carta as the “Magna Farta,” which sounds like it could be a gag from one of the Hangover movies, or some similar bro-com.
That’s just making up excuses. Maybe Mark Twain used the phrase “Shock and awe” at one point, or perhaps Benjamin Disraeli privately coined the term “Blitzkrieg.”
You certainly can’t prove they didn’t…
No; that’s pretty much the definition of an anachronism.
Exactly. It’s old enough that Queen Elizabeth used the word fart in the 16th Century.
I Copyright New York?
I speak from personal experience that I © <whatever> did, in fact, exist in 1973.
Alt+0169 in Symbol font.
Why not just use 
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How’d you do that? 
I saw that and thought the same thing, then googled and discovered they were around a lot earlier than the 70’s as you said.
Also in ‘Call the Midwife’,there was a peace symbol on the side of a truck which I thought was out of place and time. Turns out it was a logo for a British organization a while before the hippy movement took use of it.
In John Wayne’s The Cowboys, one of the boys is shown strumming a mandolin around the campfire. While it might be a bit odd for someone living out on the prairie to own a mandolin, it wasn’t an anachronism: the tune he was playing was a mandolin concerto written by Antonio Vivaldi in 1725.
Generational differences. When I was a kid, I thought of those hand-held ray-gun-like hair driers as 'old fashioned". The kind that my mother had was a stretchable cap with a hose that lead down to a hot-air-blowing unit that sat on a table. The ones I saw in salons were essentially rigid, permanently-standing versions. The only place I saw hair driers that looked like guns were in advertisements and comics from the 1950s. I was surprised when they came back in the 1970s.
Interesting that it showed up as copyright on my phone, but a heart on my laptop.