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The Great Pyramid of Giza is built c. 2560 BC
It was the tallest building on Earth for almost 4,000 years. Source
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The last woolly mammoths die out c. 2000 BC
A small group survived on Wrangel Island, in the Arctic, centuries after the pyramids were built. Source
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Cleopatra is born 69 BC
Cleopatra lived closer in time to the Moon landing than to the building of the Great Pyramid. Source
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Teaching begins at Oxford University 1096
Oxford is older than the capital of the Aztec Empire. Source
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The Aztecs found Tenochtitlan 1325
It was built on an island in a lake. Mexico City stands on the same spot today. Source
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The fax machine is patented 1843
Alexander Bain patented it 33 years before the telephone was invented (1876). Source
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