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Jul 05, 2020

TIL Because of its massive size, a T-Rex could only run at 12 miles per hour. If it ran any faster, its bones would've shattered.

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Jun 26, 2020

TIL: A hobbit-like human ancestor was found in Asia. Scientists have found skeletons of a human species that grew no larger than a three-year-old modern child. The species lived with pygmy elephants and giant lizards on a remote island in Indonesia.

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Jun 24, 2020

TIL Capuchin monkeys at Brazil’s Serra da Capivara National Park, are 3,000 years into their own 'Stone Age'

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Mar 23, 2020

TIL that a fully-preserved dinosaur tail, still covered in delicate feathers, was found. It is 99 million years old.

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Mar 03, 2020

TIL The last mammoths died around 3,600 years ago, when the great pyramids of Giza were already 1,000 years old

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Jun 28, 2019

TIL that, when the last woolly mammoths died out in 1650 BC, only about 4000 years ago. By that time, the pyramids of Giza were already a thousand years old.

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Jun 20, 2019

TIl that in April of 2019, researchers on the island of Luzon, Phillipines, discovered a new extinct species of homonoids named Homo Luzonensis. This discovery marks the third time in the last 15 years that unexpected ancient human activity has been discovered in Southeast Asia.

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Jun 04, 2019

TIL about a species of human that grew no larger than a modern 3-year-old child and lived on a remote island in Indonesia 18,000 years ago. These humans lived alongside Homo sapiens. They manufactured sophisticated stone tools, hunted elephants, and more, all with a brain only 1/3 the size of ours.

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