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WkK19 TIL the Suez Canal has a predecessor, the Canal of the Pharaohs, linking the Nile to the Red Sea in ancient times. The completion date is uncertain and it was closed in 767 AD.
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wLBNM TIL That the chair has been around for nearly 5,000 years. The earliest example in the form of a sculpture from the Cycladic Islands at approximately 2,700 B.C. which was prior to Egyptian chairs, which were typically stools. Chairs with arms and backrests implied elite status.