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TIL that the tail of a stegosaurus is called the "thagomizer". The term was coined in 1982 in a cartoon made by Gary Larson. This bone did not have a scientific name yet, and thagomizer was eventually adopted as the scientific name.

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NXmx6 TIL about the Sea Peoples, a group of tribes that invaded Ancient Egypt around 1200 BCE and might have had a decisive influence on bringing the Late Bronze Age to an end. However, scholars are not sure who the Sea Peoples were, or where they lived.
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