Random Nerding Out · 10:48pm Mar 10th, 2021
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Tyrannosaurus rex was supposed to be named Dynamosaurus imperiosus, but outcries from the general public when the information came out peer pressured paleontologists to keeping the dinosaur as the former.
Godzilla's Japanese name, Gojira, is a portmanteau of the Japanese words for gorilla and whale, gorira and kujira respectively.
I had a third fact but now I forgot.
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