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TIL that in Inception, if you take the first letters of the main characters’ names - Dom, Robert, Eames, Arthur, Mal and Saito - they spell “Dreams”. If you add Peter, Ariadne and Yusuf, the whole makes “Dreams Pay”, which is what dreams do for a mind thief.

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