10 Historical Facts That Will Turn Your Perception of Time Upside Down

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6.Cleopatra lived closer in time to the moon flight than to the building of the pyramids.

The Great Pyramid of Giza, the largest of Ancient Egypt’s pyramids, was built in about 2540 B.C. Cleopatra actually lived much closer to our time, in 69-30 B.C. The flight of man to the moon took place in 1969.

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