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Isaac Newton

Posted on September 6, 2019 by Brick Wahl

(2008)

People say that Isaac Newton had nothing to do with inventing the fig newton. Just to be sure, however, I took one out of the package and dropped it. It fell up. So sometimes people are right.

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