In the late 1940s, an unknown student at Cornell University threw a plate into the air as a joke in the university cafeteria.

In the late 1940s, an unknown student at Cornell University threw a plate into the air as a joke in the university cafeteria.

Extremely interesting facts • 69.9K followers A place for the curious to learn about interesting facts from all over the world   In the late 1940s, an unknown student at Cornell University threw a plate into the air as a joke in the university cafeteria. Alessandro13 Posted Nov 5 We don't know if the plate was caught in mid-air or if it shattered into a thousand pieces on the floor. Certainly, that episode would not have become memorable if it had not been witnessed by Richa...     When physicist Philipp Frank was appointed professor at the University of Prague in 1912, the dean of the faculty greeted him with these words: Alessandro13 Posted Nov 4 "In your specialty we ask only one thing of you: to be a more or less normal person." The professor was surprised and asked if this quality was so rare among physicists. The dean replied: "You don't w...     Alessandro13 Posted Nov 8 Richard Feynman was a great prankster and his passion for pranks showed itself very early when, in the 1940s, as a young physicist, he was invited to Los Alamos to join the large team of the Manhat... Read more »   Read more in Extremely interesting facts

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