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TIL that there was a fish-eating dinosaur called "Irritator" that lived in Brazil. It got its name because paleontologists were confused and annoyed by how a complete skull of the dinosaur was artificially elongated by a fossil dealer using bone from other parts of the body and car body filler.

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