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Original Title: TIL In 1982, Cartoonist Gary Larson invented the name “Thagomizer” (The four spikes at the end of the tail on a Stegosarus Dinosaur) as a joke in his comic strip The Far Side, and it was gradually adopted as an informal term sometimes used within scientific circles, research, and education.