Mercury

Its anomalous perihelion advance once led to talk of an unseen planet called "Vulcan".

Einstein's general relativity explained the anomaly in 1915: the classic false Planet X.

Sources

1. Wikipedia: Planets beyond Neptune
2. JPL: Approximate positions of the planets (Standish, Keplerian elements J2000)

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