I always like it when the professional crazies weigh in.

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    Supposedly the predecessors to the ancient Greeks mistook the skull of a breed of small elephants as the skull of a one-eyed giant.

    Image of a sculpture of a cyclops next to the skull of an elephant

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      One look at an elephant skull and it’s pretty easy to understand how someone would think that