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South American + Africa = T. Rex

Someone figured out that if you take South America, overlap it with Africa, and turn it counter-clockwise 90 degrees, you get a Tyrannosaurus Rex! Here it is! Proof of God's grand design.

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South American + Africa = T. Rex

48 year-old blogger has gone 9 years without spending money

Daniel Suelo wasn't poor, a victim of bad luck, mentally ill, or even uneducated. He just decided that he wanted to have nothing to do with money

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48 year-old blogger has gone 9 years without spending money

Fossilized poo reveals ancient ecosystem

“A new study of 30 million-year-old fossilized mega-dung balls, as big as three inches (seven centimeters) in diameter and produced from the dung of extinct giant South American mammals, reveals that the dung was also a food source for a number of insects that would steal a bite while the dung beetles weren't looking. “Traces [in the fossilized dung] record the behavior of animals actively stealing the food resources set aside by the dung beetles,” said Victoria Sanchez, a graduate student at the Museum of Natural Sciences in Buenos Aires and a co-author on the study. “The shapes and sizes of these fossilized burrows and borings in the dung balls indicate that other beetles, flies and earthworms were the culprits.

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