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Fun facts

Here are some fun facts

  • The closest living relatives to birds are crocodilians
  • Dinosaurs are older than grass
  • If you go back far enough, you are related to an octopus
  • You live closer in time to the tyrannosaurus rex than it lived to the stegosaurus
  • Antarctica used to be covered in life
  • The birds originally named penguin are extinct. People named the Antarctic birds "penguins" because they looked like birds the people knew as penguins.
  • The deepest part of the sea is deeper than the highest mountain is tall
  • Titanic had more lifeboats than the laws at the time required 
  • It was spring on the northern hemisphere when the rock that made the non-avian dinosaurs go extinct hit