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Today's Google Doodle Is Miley Cyrus "Wrecking Ball" Themed

Happy birthday, Léon Foucault.

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Hunter Schwarz
Hunter Schwarz
BuzzFeed Staff

Today's Google Doodle came in like a wrecking ball.

It's actually for Léon Foucault, the inventor of the pendulum.

Foucault was born 194 years ago today in Paris, France. He first demonstrated the pendulum in 1851.

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