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Cleopatra lived closer in time to the Moon landing than to the construction of the pyramids.

Why it is true

The Great Pyramid of Giza was built around twenty-five hundred BC. Cleopatra ruled in the first century BC, and the Moon landing occurred in nineteen sixty-nine, making the time interval between Cleopatra and the Moon smaller.

Source: Encyclopedia Britannica

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