TIL that the extinction of the dinosaurs was closer in time to us today than the beginning of the Cretaceous period, and that's not even factoring in the Triassic and Jurassic periods.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cretaceous
#til #todayilearned
https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1g2wcic/til_that_the_extinction_of_the_dinosaurs_was/