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" In a recent episode of Drunk History, comedian Jenny Slate gets a bit sloshed while relating the tale of how physicist Arnos Penzias and astronomer Robert Wilson stumbled across cosmic microwave background radiation, evidence that forms the backbone of the Big Bang theory.  The two were using the Holmdel Horn Antenna in New Jersey in 1964 when they stumbled across some unexplained noise. After ruling out several possible sources of interference, they ultimately came to the conclusion that what they were hearing was, essentially, the echo of the beginning of everything. Penzias and Wilson received the 1978 Nobel Prize in Physics for their work, which incidentally included more pigeon deaths than one might initially imagine.  Watch the clip for the full, somewhat-accurate story:        "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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