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icebraining
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Einstein's boyhood proof of the Pythagorean theore...
Apparently Pythagoras had a following (a cult) and one of the rules was not eating beans:
https://classicalwisdom.com/cult-of-pythagoras/
Or maybe that meant not voting, since the Greeks used colored beans for voting.
Rapzid
on March 5, 2018
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Perhaps he didn't want them eating the beans and losing their vote.
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Or maybe that meant not voting, since the Greeks used colored beans for voting.