stackyFACTSThe scientific community literally un-invented a dinosaur. Due to an aggressive bone-hunting rivalry in the nineteenth century, researchers hastily stuck the wrong skull on a body and named it Brontosaurus, a mistake that took decades to officially correct before they finally gave the name back in recent years.
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