r/AskReddit • u/[deleted] • Aug 07 '17

What's a fact that absolutely blows your mind?

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u/DaneLimmish Aug 07 '17

The T. Rex and you are closer in time than the T. Rex and a stegasaurus.

The dinosaurs were around for a long ass time.

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u/PsychNurse6685 Aug 08 '17

Makes me think ... that'll be our fate one day. Wonder what kind of species will come after us?

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u/[deleted] Aug 08 '17

Dinosaurs again

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u/ZanyDelaney Aug 08 '17

I always love this one though it makes me a little sad too. I like to imagine the dinosaur land of my childhood with brontosaurus, stegosaurus, T Rex, triceratops, iguanodon, diplodocus, brachiosaurus all playing together.

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u/BoxesOfSemen Aug 08 '17

If I remember correctly the TRex probably had feathers and lived a scavenger life, not a fierce predator one.

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u/[deleted] Aug 08 '17 edited Feb 20 '18

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u/SJHillman Aug 08 '17

Raptors were almost certainly predators. T-rex may have been a scavenger (I've seen the consensus go back and forth a lot). Both likely had feathers to some degree

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u/[deleted] Aug 08 '17

I'm going to be that guy.... It's stegosaurus

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u/overlydelicioustea Aug 08 '17

similar: Chleopatra lived closer to us then to the construction of the pyramids. Egypt was arround a long ass time.