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Neanderthals are an extinct lineage of hominins that emerged around 400,000 years ago and died off around 40,000 years ago. They are the closest known human relatives and interbred with Homo sapiens.

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Discovered by sheer accident in the late 1920s, penicillin was the world's first antibiotic.

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