stackyFACTSWhen he wasn't busy inventing calculus or discovering gravity, history's greatest physicist was basically a financial vigilante. Appointed as Warden of the Mint in 1696, Newton disguised himself and actively prowled the seedy taverns of London to gather evidence against counterfeiters, eventually sending dozens of them to the gallows.
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