The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/AmiroZ on 2024-12-22 16:11:14.

Original Title: 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.