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1854
After the Great Exhibition of 1851, the Crystal Palace was dismantled and rebuilt near Sydenham in south London. The enlarged new version opened in 1854 and survived until a devastating fire in 1936.
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.