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1858
London’s Great Stink of 1858 turned the sewage-polluted Thames into an unavoidable political emergency. It accelerated support for the major sewer network associated with engineer Joseph Bazalgette.
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.