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AMOUNT that officials decided to pay individual gold medal winners in track and field at this summer’s Olympic Games. Up until now, Olympic athletes had received no prize money.
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50.8%
CHANCE a flipped coin has of landing on the same side it started from, according to a recent study from the University of Amsterdam. Researchers analyzed the results of 350,757 coin flips.
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65 million
AGE of a juvenile T. rex fossil recently discovered by three preteen boys in North Dakota. Scientists believe the dinosaur—which they’ve dubbed “Teen Rex”—would have been about 10 feet tall and weighed about 3,500 pounds.
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