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* [[Einstein Hair]] - a mild case. During the ''Challenger'' investigation, he had to be reminded to comb it by another commissioner.
* [[Famous Last Words]] - "I'd hate to die twice. It's so ''boring''."
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* [[Morton's Fork]] - he [[Draft Dodging|escaped the draft]] by flunking the psychological evaluation, and nicely sent-up ''[[Catch
** It should be noted that he didn't intentionally flunk, he simply answered honestly. For instance, when the psychologist asked if he thought people stared at him, he said, "Yeah, probably a few staring right now," referring to the small room with people waiting who have nothing else to look at. The psychologist said that was "narcissistic tendencies with paranoia".
* [[Mouthful of Pi]] - He wanted to memorize Pi up to the 762nd digit, at which point there is a string of six nines in a row, so that he could say "...nine nine nine nine nine nine, and so on" and thus mislead people into thinking Pi was a rational number. This misconception is amplified by the fact that up to that point, the longest string of repeating digits is only 3 digits long. This sequence has been named the Feynman Point in his honor.
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