If you think Jurassic Park has told you everything you need to know about the prehistoric inhabitants of Earth, think again. These fascinating dinosaur facts will surprise you.Long before the dawn of man, there walked giants who forever left their mark upon Earth. Dinosaurs lived on the planet for over 66 million years (over three times longer than humans so far) before their extinction, leaving us to scrape together what little information we can from their scattered remains.

Source: Slate In a way, every major event in history can be reduced to a tale of power struggle and protest. Successful protests have struck down reprehensible policies like Apartheid, and brought attention to previously unknown issues like the many missing indigenous women in Canada. The extreme protests featured here cover a wide array of issues in different ways. From disturbing public art displays to physical backlashes, these protests shocked the world for a number of reasons.

Bobby Sands was a member of the Irish Republican Army and spent the last 66 days of his life on hunger strike in HM Prison Maze fighting for political prisoner status. PA Images via Getty ImagesBobby Sands, who died on hunger strike in 1981 at the age of 27. Bobby Sands’ earliest memories were of the Troubles, the thirty-year period in which rival armed factions vied with one another for control of the six counties of Northern Ireland.

"Some day they’ll go down together, they’ll bury them side by side. To few it’ll be grief, to the law a relief, but it’s death for Bonnie and Clyde."Heritage AuctionsSeveral of Bonnie and Clyde’s poems from 1933. Bonnie and Clyde are an undeniable part of 20th-century American outlaw iconography. The infamous pair of Depression-era criminals have been immortalized in literature and on the silver screen — and have now entered history’s poetry club.

In 1867, a poor Irish immigrant named Bridget Deignan was put to death for the murder of her boss, Mary Ellen Coriell — but here’s why some modern historians think she may have been unfairly blamed.The curious case of Bridget Deignan is a shocking but true story of murder — and potentially justice denied. Deignan was only 22 years old in 1867 when a judge in Middlesex County, New Jersey, sentenced her to death for the murder of her employer, Mary Ellen Coriell.