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TIL the largest naturally occurring iron mass on the Earth’s surface was discovered in 1920 on a small farm in rural Namibia. Unusual for its size (over 60 tonnes) it was found to be extraterrestrial in origin, proving to be the largest iron meteorites to ever reach the Earth’s surface intact

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