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Cleopatra lived closer in time to the Moon landing than to the building of the Great Pyramid.

Why it is true

The Great Pyramid of Giza was built around 2560 BC. Cleopatra lived around 30 BC, and the Apollo 11 mission landed on the Moon in 1969. The time difference is over two millennia in both cases.

Source: British Museum

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