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22 May 2020

Foxworthy’s Facts Of Life

Jeff Foxworthy saunters into the lighter side of life with a slice of his signature comedy. A member of the wildly popular Blue Collar Comedy Tour, Foxworthy breaks down the facts of life that no one talks about, such as his take on the meanest dinosaur. “The Tyrannosaurus rex was the meanest because his arms were too short to reach his wiener,” he says. “That is a medically proven fact. That will make you angry. And you’ll never watch Jurassic Park the same way again.” Check out the entire act on Netflix Is A Joke.

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19 Nov 2019

How T-Rex Lost Its Arms

Three characteristics dominate the legacy of Tyrannosaurus Rex: It was huge, vicious and had small arms. The story of how it lost those small arms is pretty simple, but why it kept the puny limbs is another tale. PBS Eons host Hank Green fills us in on the details.

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31 Mar 2017

Was T-Rex a Big Fat Chicken?

Now that some evidence is emerging that T-Rex might have had red feathers and been an oversized relative of the chicken, inquiring minds want to know: Was the big beast even a dinosaur? Or might it have been a 40-foot-long, eight-ton bird?

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23 Apr 2015
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T. Rex Had Formidable Arms

One of the most surprising misconceptions about dinosaurs is that Tyrannosaurus rex, aka T rex, had tiny arms. The king of the dinos indeed had small arms in modern depictions, but because T. rex stood 18-feet-tall, his arms measured around 3-feet. Popular Science magazine estimated that T. rex could curl 430 pounds, compared to a human’s max of 260. Host Elliott Morgan details more dinosaur misconceptions in this edition of Mental Floss.

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17 Sep 2014

What Really Killed T-Rex?

True, a mega-asteroid was responsible for wiping out the dinosaurs 66 million years ago. But is there more to the story? SciShow’s Hank Green discusses evidence that suggests there were other factors percolating that turned a really bad day into one of the worst days in the history of the planet.

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