Breaking: There Are Not 177,000 Ways to Tie a Tie

Photo: Jonathan Grassi/New York Times Yesterday, the good people at the New York Times wrote an well-meaning, if misguided, article about the vast variety of ways to tie your necktie. The story claims that

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