stackyFACTSFor a man who unlocked the deepest secrets of gravity and optics, his political career was breathtakingly pointless. During his entire year serving as a Member of Parliament, Newton only stood up to speak exactly one time, and it was solely to ask a clerk to shut a window because it was drafty.
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