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TIL Albert Einstein once took a cab home but forgot his address. He asked the cab driver, who didn’t recognize him, if he knew Einstein’s address. The driver said everyone in Princeton knows that address, to which Einstein replied, “I am Einstein. I forgot my address. Can you take me there?”

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