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1863
London's first underground passenger railway opened on 10 January 1863 with steam locomotives, not electric trains. The Metropolitan Railway carried passengers between Paddington and Farringdon Street beneath streets already crowded with traffic.
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.