stackyFACTSIt is deeply comforting to know that the man synonymous with raw human intellect absolutely bombed a standardized test. Despite excelling in math and physics, a young Einstein spectacularly failed the language and botany sections of his polytechnic exam, proving that even geniuses are terrible at arbitrary school subjects.
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