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  1. #Smoot: How an fraternity prank turned into a measurement
    On a chilly October evening in 1958, a group of #MIT students shuffled onto the Harvard Bridge, which separates the university town of Cambridge from Boston proper. The shortest among them lay down on the sidewalk at the bridge's start, his friends marked his length, he got up, moved forward, and repeated the process. The man in question was #OliverSmoot, then a freshman who was pledging to join #LambdaChiAlpha.
    theregister.com/2025/07/18/smo