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TIL that the top mathematics student at Cambridge University is known as the Senior Wrangler. In 1880 J. J. Thomson was so confident he was #1 that he sent his servant to find out how others had ranked. When Thomson asked "Who was Second Wrangler?", he was told "You were, sir"; Joseph Larmor was #1.

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