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TIL that the last woolly mammoths survived on isolated Wrangel Island off Siberia until approximately 2000 BC, long after their mainland extinction around 10,000 years ago. This means they coexisted in time with the construction of the Great Pyramid of Giza (about 2560 BC).

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