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Wednesday, January 20, 2021

Dinosaur Poopers

That's not a metaphor for politicians. We're talking actual fossilized dinosaur poopers.
"The world’s oldest known all-purpose orifice sits in a fossil display case in the Senckenberg Natural History Museum in Frankfurt, Germany, so close to the glass that enshrines it that you can “put your face up to it, like this,” said Jakob Vinther, a paleontologist at the University of Bristol in England, holding his hand a couple inches from his nose."
I saw All-Purpose Orifice open for Public Image Limited back in '94.
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