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TIL Issac Newton roamed the streets as anti-counterfeit coin vigilante, then invented the ridges on coins to reduce fraud currency

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n9pb TIL that in his portraits, Napoleon Bonaparte kept his hand on his stomach due to his abdominal pains, not any kind of fashion custom.He died of stomach cancer.
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