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202 ft
London's Monument rises 202 feet, matching its stated distance west of the Pudding Lane site where the Great Fire began. Its proportions turn a measurement across the city into a memorial on the skyline.
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.