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TIL Humans in the year 2020 are closer in time to a Tyrannosaurus Rex than Tyrannosaurus Rex is to a Stegosaurus. T-Rex lived in the late Cretaceous period ~68 million years ago. Stegosaurus lived in the Late Jurassic period ~155 million years ago.

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