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ANwmo
today i learned that a coin flip isn't 50/50 but 51/49
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TIL that we don't know how the great French mathematician Adrien-Marie Legendre really looked like, because the only surviving portrait of him is an angry face in a caricaturist's work. For 200 years, the portrait of a French politician was wrongly attributed to him and used in old textbooks.