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FAST FACTS
1969 Astronauts
land on the Moon Bristlecone pine
Lifespan 5,000 years

Seagrass Present day
Lifespan 100,000 years

A huge seagrass colony in the
Mediterranean may be 100,000
years old, which would make it
1492 Columbus the oldest known life-form.
reaches the
Americas
1095 Crusades 6 ft 6 in (2 m)
begin

3 ft 4 in
(1 m)

Monday Tuesday
Bamboo can grow more than
3 ft 4 in (1 m) per day—faster
117 ce Height of than any other plant.
220 bce Building Roman Empire
of Great Wall of
China begins

original size
1325 bce after 100 years
Egyptian pharaoh after 200 years
Tutankhamun
is buried Lichens are half-plant, half-fungi
Pyramids at Giza,
c.2500 bce life-forms that grow as patches
Egypt, are built
c.3050 bce on rocks or trees. Some live for
millennia, but they may grow less
The tree’s than 0.004 in (0.1 mm) per year.
seed sprouts

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