46. Land of the Free
Everyone loves dinosaurs. They’re giant, terrifying reptiles who have lived rent-free in the public consciousness for a long time. They have become popular to use in all sorts of media, entertainment, culture, and everything else in between.
But we didn’t even know they existed until just under two hundred years ago when the first fossil was discovered. Unfortunately, America’s founding fathers did not have the fortune to learn about them before they died; how crazy is that?