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[WP] You're a famous detective that in the middle of an investigation discovers that you are in a book, due to the great number of plot contrivances.
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[WP] You just found the cure to cancer and governments around their world are trying to silence you for profit… it turns out the cigarette companies hired people to keep you safe since their best customers would live longer
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[WP] The date is July 13, 1836. You're the clerk at the front desk of the U.S. Patent Office on opening day. Things are going just fine until a number of strangely-dressed people get into an argument about their placement in line. Coincidentally, they're all trying to patent methods of time travel.
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[WP] God and the Devil have an annual bet on the Super Bowl and they usually only intervene in subtle "mysterious ways" but God has won every single year and the Devil is through with subtle.
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[WP] A young businessman gives a homeless woman 50$, who in return offers him a deal: He can choose between getting the amount of money he already spent in his life, or recieve as much as he would spend in the rest of it. He chooses the latter and then the woman hands him a box with 12$ in it.
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[WP] You wake up and find you have gone back in time 15 years to be your younger self. But as the day progresses you realize you aren't the only one.
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[WP] In a world where superheroes are commonplace, your city is protected by a shape-shifting super-hero. No-one knows who she truly is, until one day you open your storage room and the hero's costume spills onto the floor. Your cat then lets out a shocked and very human gasp once she sees this.
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[WP] All your life you’ve been followed by two ravens. They occasionally bring you things that are helpful in some way. Today they brought you an eye patch and a dagger.
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[WP] You are a child genius. At age 5, you get put forward for a school for gifted children. Knowing this means leaving behind all your friends, you decide to intentionally fail the entry exam. Years later, you discover that being mediocre isn't nearly as easy as you thought it'd be.
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