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Some living trees are older than the Egyptian pyramids.

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A Great Basin bristlecone pine in California’s White Mountains, known as Methuselah, is more than 4,800 years old. It was already growing when the Great Pyramid of Giza was built.

Source: Methuselah (tree) (Wikipedia)

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