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TIL Cat Stevens wrote The First Cut Is The Deepest

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78bVr TIL The fossilised remains of a T rex and a Triceratops who died fighting eachother, discovered in 2006, remained in private hands and thus unavailable for study unti 2024, partially because of land dispute over whether fossils are minerals or not. A court in Montanta ruled that fossils are minerals
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