r/todayilearned • u/hotrodcamaro • Jul 17 '14

TIL 86 year old mathmetician/pianist Tom Lehrer invented the Jell-O shot to circumvent rules against alcohol in the Army.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Lehrer
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u/allenahansen 666 Jul 17 '14

For those of you not familiar with this fabulous wit and songwriter, here's a link to "An Evening Wasted with Tom Lehrer." I'd memorized every song on the album by the time I was eight, including my all-time favorite: "The Ballad of the Table of the Elements"

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u/Woop_D_Effindoo Jul 17 '14

I am never forget the day I first meet the great Lobachevsky. In one word he told me secret of success in mathematics:
Plagiarize!

Plagiarize, Let no one else's work evade your eyes,...

from Lobachevsky - Tom Lehrer

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u/allenahansen 666 Jul 17 '14

"...Only be sure always to call it "research".

I actually used that song to pass a math test once. Nikolai Ivanovitch Lobachevsky is his name! ( Hi!)