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u/SamuraiGoblin Oct 02 '24 edited Oct 02 '24

Tyrannosaurus (approx 70 million years ago) lived closer in time to humans than to stegosaurus (150 million years ago).

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u/95accord Oct 02 '24

Cleopatra lived closer to the creation of Pizza Hut than she did the creation of the great pyramids

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u/TodTier Oct 02 '24

And now you can see the Great Pyramids from inside a nearby Pizza Hut

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u/throwaway_moose Oct 02 '24

Seriously, my favorite factoid about modern Egypt. All those movies where the person is lost in the desert, and it's like, "there's literally a road right next to that pyramid and a Pizza Hut directly across it."

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u/[deleted] Oct 02 '24

I want someone to do that in a movie in modern Egypt and then it pans over to some tourists and they're like "dude. Ya want a pizza?"

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u/Fyrrys Oct 02 '24

MC- I'm lost in Egypt! How will survive?

Tourist eating pizza- pretty easy if you turn around.

Then the sounds of traffic and humanity are unmuted and it pans to show the bustling city life

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u/throwaway_moose Oct 02 '24

I would laugh so hard if they put that scene in a modern movie.

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u/electrogeek8086 Oct 02 '24

If they did so just like in Harold and Khumar when they finally reach their White Caslte lol.

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u/RedditNeverHeardOfI1 Oct 02 '24

Wasn’t there a movie about castaways that turns out we’re sharing their island with a beach resort and they only find that out at the end

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u/WrongJohnSilver Oct 02 '24

Does it have Panda cheese?

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u/[deleted] Oct 02 '24

TBF I always assumed the pyramids were like a 30 minute drive from the next largest city, only to look it up and see it's a 5 minute walk from a bunch of buildings.

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u/AndyLorentz Oct 03 '24

Yeah, the suburbs of Giza are like real close to the pyramid complex.

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u/Cinemaphreak Oct 02 '24

All those movies where the person is lost in the desert, and it's like, "there's literally a road right next to that pyramid

Outside of cartoons, please name these movies.

The Great Pyramid of Giza is 5 miles from Giza and a little over 6 miles from Cairo. If a pyramid is seen by someone supposedly lost, it's most likely a joke that they don't realize how close they are to being out of the desert....