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TIL the gift shop inside the 45-foot-high steel and concrete Brontosaur at the world famous Cabazon Dinosaur roadside attraction in Cabazon, California now features a creationist museum and sells merchandise that promotes young earth creationism after it was sold to the current owners.

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