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TIL in 1912, a man found the skull of a prehistoric "missing link" in the human evolutionary chain. In 1953, it was discovered that the skull was that of a medieval human with an orangutan jaw and fossilized chimpanzee teeth. "The Piltdown Man" become the most famous paleoanthropological hoax ever.

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