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TIL that villagers in central China have long been using dinosaur bones in medicine and soups, thinking they were from dragons.

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DVJP TIL that the correct plural for octopus is either ‘octopuses’ or 'octopodes’, NOT 'octopi’. Octopus is derived from Greek, not Latin.
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