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Are there examples of conjectures supported by heuristic arguments that have been finally disproved?

The idea for this comes from the twin prime conjecture, where the heuristic evidence seems just so overwhelming, especially in the light of Zhang's famous result from 2014 about Bounded gaps between ...
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What are conjectures that are true for primes but then turned out to be false for some composite number?

Note: This is an update formulation since many people misunderstood the question before. Of course it is easy to make a statement like "Every n is a prime or at most 1000", which is true for every ...
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