Riddle
An archaeologist finds a coin dated 48 B.C. How did he know it was a fake?
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Answer
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Why it works
Trap: You treat the date as historically normal.
Often wrong: Assuming “B.C.” would have been written at the time.
The giveaway is the date label. People in that era did not stamp “B.C.” on coins, because that system was invented centuries later, so the coin could not be real.
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