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1840
The Penny Black was the world's first adhesive postage stamp used in a public postal system. Valid in Britain from 6 May 1840, it provided a small, portable way to show that postage had been prepaid.
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.