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Theoretical physicist Albert Einstein was born on this day in 1879. Here's something creepy: Thomas Stoltz Harvey, the doctor who performed Einstein's autopsy after he died, stole the genius's brain and kept it in a jar for twenty years. If that's not weird enough for you, Einstein's eyeballs are still in a safe deposit box in New York City.
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