A Telangana Class IX SSC textbook, according to a Times of India report by Nirupa Vatyam, has cited late rockstars Freddie Mercury and David Bowie as „scientists“, crediting them with “removing salt from seawater using a semi-permeable membrane through a process called desalination“.

The goof-up in the biology textbook appeared in the „Did You Know“ section, according to the report. Thomas Jefferson is considered the inventor of the earliest forms of desalination. 

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