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4 copies
Four original exemplifications of Magna Carta issued in 1215 survive. They are contemporary authoritative documents, not four later photocopies of one uniquely signed master.
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.