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The Anglo-Zanzibar War on August 27, 1896 is generally recognized as the shortest recorded war. Its fighting lasted roughly 38 to 45 minutes, although accounts differ over the precise start and finish.
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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.
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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.