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TIL that modern day illuminati conspiracy theories is actually a result of two writers that wanted to sow disinformation into the world in order for people to try and question their reality

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ewjb TIL zebras are black with white stripes. If you shaved one it would be completely black.
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XjdR TIL James Earl Jones stuttered so bad as a child that he was functionally mute for 8 years until an English teacher in High School discovered he had a gift for poetry and helped him end his silence.
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