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Yes. Strictly speaking, Big Ben is the Great Bell in the tower at the Palace of Westminster. The tower itself was renamed Elizabeth Tower in 2012, though most people still call the whole thing Big Ben.
2,500
Cleopatra lived closer to the 1969 Moon landing than to the construction of the Great Pyramid. The pyramid was already about 2,500 years old when she was born.
4,000
A surviving population of woolly mammoths lived on Wrangel Island while Egyptians were building the Great Pyramid. These Arctic animals persisted until about 4,000 years ago, long after most mainland populations disappeared.