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TIL that while bored during his work with the Manhattan Project Richard Feynman would amuse himself by picking the locks of his colleges confidential file cabinets and placing prank notes, his colleges believed a spy had infiltrated the project.

J1Yej TIL the actor Leslie Baker, known for playing disgruntled paper salesman Stanley Hudson in "The Office," inadvertently prepped for the role by portraying an office worker in OfficeMax commercials while in graduate school.
gr5jA TIL there was a famous Japanese game show in which diehard baseball fan contestants were locked individually in small rooms for an entire baseball season: if their favorite team won each night they got dinner for the evening, if their team lost the lights would be turned out until the next win.
OoYpX TIL "Orko" from He–Man & the Masters of the Universe was originally named "Gorpo". The cartoon company Filmation was so cheap they changed his name to "Orko" so they could flip & reuse his animation cells more efficiently. Originally he had a big "G" on him that couldn't be reversed like an "O".
6lg7 TIL A 3rd grade girl was expelled for a year because her grandmother sent her to school with a birthday cake and a knife to cut the cake. The teacher used the knife to cut the cake, then reported the girl to the authorities as having a dangerous weapon
nexpd TIL That Outback Steakhouse was created by 4 Americans and the only genuine Australian food they serve is the alcohol