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TIL Olivia Netwon-John is the granddaughter of Nobel physicst Max Born and she sang at his 125th birthday celebration in Germany. Although she has never met her grandfather, she often heard her mother speak highly of him

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yQNbp TIL that the numbers we write today are all upper case. Lower case numbers exist and some include ascenders and descenders
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