Oil in the Drum

A man has a barrel filled with oil that weighs 100 pounds, and then he puts something into it. Now the barrel weighs less than 100 pounds. What did he put in the barrel?

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The phrase “thinking outside the box” was popularised from the solution to a topographical puzzle involving 9 dots in a box shape.