10:
Tried to promote military uses of gravity, but farmers of the day couldn't deliver enough weaponized Granny Smiths.
Tried to promote military uses of gravity, but farmers of the day couldn't deliver enough weaponized Granny Smiths.
9:
Was accompanied for years by lookalike nephews, J-saac, M-saac, and N-saac.
Was accompanied for years by lookalike nephews, J-saac, M-saac, and N-saac.
8:
Instead of "Theory of Gravitation," he had originally intended to pen a sweeping multi-generation outer space saga, but was advised to "write what you know."
Instead of "Theory of Gravitation," he had originally intended to pen a sweeping multi-generation outer space saga, but was advised to "write what you know."
7:
Never actually won the Nobel Prize for Gravity!
6:
Would try to impress his name on acquaintances by urging them to visualize a NEWT ON his head.
Would try to impress his name on acquaintances by urging them to visualize a NEWT ON his head.
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"Sir" in his name was actually self-awarded, and was always accompanied by "air quotes."
4:
He once dropped an apple on a man in Reno, just to watch him make that "Ow! My head!" face.
3:
He personally founded a small town in Massachusetts.
2:
Hated goddamn figs!
And the #1 Amazing Fact about Sir Isaac Newton:
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Recanted Law of Gravity on his deathbed, and everybody floated off into space!
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