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TIL a meteor reportedly fell right on the battlefield during a war between Pontus and Rome. According to Plutarch, the sky suddenly split apart and a large silvery-hot meteor resembling a giant hogshead bombarded the ground between the armies. Both forces promptly withdrew to fight another day.

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