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TIL the pyramids are closer in time to stegosaurus than we are (quokk.au)
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[–] agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works 5 points 3 months ago

I think that's the joke. Obviously much less time separates us from the pyramids than separates the pyramids from stegosaurus.

This is definitely a humorous subversion of that variety of fun fact, since two popular versions are that Cleopatra lived closer to the modern day than to the construction of the pyramids, and that T-Rex lived closer to the modern day than it did to stegosaurus.