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Fire was discovered when someone tried to microwave a mammoth. The caveman was early, not wrong.

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Humans controlled fire hundreds of thousands of years ago, long before microwaves, which were invented in the 1940s. Fire wasn't discovered by someone cooking a mammoth in a microwave.

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