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TIL about the Nichoria bone. A fossilized thigh bone belonging to an immense extinct mammal and found by the ancient Greeks. Believing the bone belonged to a giant, the Greeks venerated it. Thought to be long lost, it was rediscovered in Duluth, Minnesota.

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