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Scientists discover giant sea predator Tylosaurus rex that terrorized ancient oceans
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SpaceX launches test flight of Starship Musk is building to transport people to Mars – The Journal
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Apollo 12 was struck by lightning twice less than a minute after launch, and the mission kept going only because a flight controller recognised an obscure telemetry failure pattern and told the crew to flip a switch almost nobody else in the room understood
The core of this story holds up. On 14 November 1969, the Saturn V carrying Apollo 12 was…
Scientists Discover Terrifying Giant Crocodile That Hunted Human Ancestors
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