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

Why it is true

The Great Pyramid was built around twenty-five hundred BC, Cleopatra lived near thirty BC, and the Moon was landed on in nineteen sixty-nine.

Source: Ancient Egypt

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