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2. So smart he was angry others visiting Japan did not learn Japanese first

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Sun May 26, 2019, 03:10 AM

May 2019

A group of physicists visited Japan for a conference and he felt they were rude for not learning Japanese first. Apparently he knew just about everything about everything. He and the guy in the next office, Richard Feynman, would have epic battles in solving puzzles the fastest.

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