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TIL Tyrannosaurus rex lived closer in time to the release of Jurassic Park (1993) than the actual Jurassic period.

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vlpD TIL that in 1967 a history teacher performed an experiment with his class to find out why people allowed the Nazis to commit terrible acts. He brainwashed them using Nazi ideals and at the end of the week had several hundred teenage followers under his complete control before he revealed the truth
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