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10. Einstein was fooled by a magic trick

Fri Jun 4, 2021, 07:34 PM

Jun 2021

Which was essentially a simple math word problem... twice. He went up to a magician at an event he was at after the show was over to offer his hypothesis on how the trick worked (he was wrong), and the magician did it again and fooled him.

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