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TIL that archeologist Virginia Steen-McIntyre dated a human settlement in Hueyatlaco Mexico to 250,000 BCE some 200,000+ years before most other estimates. Despite the fact that she confirmed this date through four different scientific tests, her research has remained not widely accepted.

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