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TIL Einstein rented an apartment in Bern on the second floor from 1903 to 1905, considered his “crucial years” and it is now a restored museum. Despite working a 48 hour week at the Patent Office and juggling life with a new wife and baby, Einstein still managed to create paradigms in physics

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