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16 Jan, 8 tweets, 2 min read
Did you know: dinosaurs had precisely six different reactions* to their mass extinction 66 million years ago! Let's take a look at them...

(*stock photography doesn't lie about such things)
"Did you just fart or something?"
"Ooh, that's not good..."
"Are you f*cking kidding me here?"
"Seriously I DO NOT NEED this sh*t right now!!"
"Won't somebody think of the children!"
"ADRIAAAAAAAN!"
Next week on True Pulp Prehistory Tales... whatever happened to the North American megafauna? Were the Clovis people really responsible?

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