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TIL that when A Bug's Life was released in 1998 the rhinoceros beetle Dim was not based on any known species. Eight years later a Peruvian rhinoceros beetle was discovered with a very similar horn. Such discoveries of "fictional" creatures later revealed to be real have been dubbed "the Dim Effect".

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