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From Communing With Animals to Obsessive Bean Hatred, Pythagoras Was One Weird Dude

GOD OR CRACKPOT?

While he is famous to us for his mathematical theorems, in antiquity Pythagoras was renowned for the philosophical-religious sect that he founded.

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