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Researchers have unearthed the only historically documented case of people being struck by a meteorite. Tales of meteorites falling to Earth are carved on prehistoric stones and featured in the Bible, for example, in Revelation 6:13, when we read “the stars of the sky fell to the earth as the fig tree sheds its winter fruit when shaken by a gale”. But now, the first documented case of a space rock killing someone has been discovered by Turkish researchers, when on August 22, 1888 a meteorite killed a man and paralyzed another when it crashed into a pyramidal-hilltop in what is now Sulaymaniyah in Iraq. The new research has been published in Meteoritics & Planetary Science detailing three letters found