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~26 m
The Panama Canal lifts ships to Gatun Lake, roughly 26 metres above sea level, before lowering them toward the other ocean. It is a lock-and-lake crossing, not a continuous sea-level trench.
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.