stackyFACTSTheoretical physics wasn't quite enough to occupy the frantic mind of a Nobel laureate. Richard Feynman spent a significant amount of his free time aggressively playing the bongo drums, eventually infiltrating a local samba band in Copacabana and performing in the streets just for the sheer chaos of it.
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