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TIL During an interview with Stephen Hawking, the camera operator mistakenly tugged a cable, triggering an alert and forcing Hawking to slump forward. Everyone panicked, believing they had wounded him, only to discover he was simply laughing at his own joke. The alert was triggered by an office comp

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