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It seems like there are 20 ways to tie a tie - there are all these different kinds of knots. Actually, according to a swedish mathematician there are actually 177,147 ways to tie a tie! That seems a little excessive to me, who could remember all those ways? I'm not going to highlight even a small percentage of those 177,000 plus ways but here, for #TieTuesday, are some of the more common knots for ties. 

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