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Cannonball Math Proved Napoleon Was Doomed at Waterloo
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Cannonball Math Proved Napoleon Was Doomed at Waterloo

A brilliant mathematician's attempt to calculate cannon trajectories accidentally proved that Napoleon was doomed to fail at Waterloo.

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