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One of the things I thought after watching this is if Archimedes could have been inspired/influenced by noticing the crow's behavior or by Aesop's fable.

That's a pretty dim view of humanity-- do you really think that no one before Archimedes realized that stones displace water? Archimedes' "Eureka!" moment was a bit more profound than that.

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