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Isaac Newton blamed gravity for his bad posture. Which is exactly the kind of accountability we expect from physics.

✗ FAKE
Isaac Newton formulated the law of universal gravitation, published in 1687. There is no record of him blaming gravity for his posture. The claim is a joke.

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