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TIL Carl Linnaeus' corpse is the model specimen for the human race. In 1959, taxonomist William T. Stearn officially made Linne, the founder of his discipline, the ICZN lectotype for homo sapiens, and his skeletal remains are now the benchmark for what a modern human is and looks like.

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