VERIFIED FACT
T. rex lived closer in time to humans than to Stegosaurus.
Why this sounds fake
Most people imagine famous dinosaurs sharing one giant prehistoric era, instead of living tens of millions of years apart.
Dinosaur time gets flattened in our heads, so we picture famous dinosaurs sharing one prehistoric stage. They did not. Stegosaurus lived in the Jurassic. T. rex lived near the end of the Cretaceous, tens of millions of years later. Humans are still separated from T. rex by an enormous gap, but the gap from T. rex to us is smaller than the gap from T. rex back to Stegosaurus. That is why the fact works instantly: it rearranges the dinosaur timeline, not the dinosaur names. The famous dinosaurs were not neighbors.
The Surprise
T. rex lived closer in time to us than to Stegosaurus.
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