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    Man, I love unexpected comparisons like this!

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        Woolly mammoths walked the Earth while the pyramids were being built (well, one small corner of it).

        Oxford university was teaching before the Aztec Empire began.

        I think I read through an entire AskReddit thread of these. A few I came across on my own and was surprised by: Fibbonacci of the numbers fame could have met Ghengis Khan, Benjamin Franklin could have talked to Isaac Newton, and Galileo was literally the same age as Shakespeare.