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TIL in 1906 con man Wilhelm Voigt posed as a Prussian military officer and took a group of troops by train to the town of Köpenick, arresting the mayor and stealing 4000 German marks. He was viewed as a folk hero and the Kaiser later pardoned him. A statue of him stands outside the city hall.
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[WP] The pilot of a passenger plane receives a message mid-flight that their destination, an airport in a major city, has been destroyed in a nuclear attack. Soon after, reports from around the country indicate that nuclear war has begun. Fuel is getting lower.
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[WP] The hot new social media site that’s taking the internet by storm has a unique premise: it allows the living to socialize with the dead.
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[WP] Feeling unusually motivated, you decide to go on a hike - you’ve never hiked before. Still, it’s a beautiful day and it’s going smoothly, until a sudden disturbance moves across the sky like a wave. Your earbuds and smartphone go dead. A geomagnetic storm hit the Earth - and you’re on your own.
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[WP] In the not so distant future, commercials have become serialized to the point of producing fully fleshed out stories involving company mascots. It's the Emmys, and a popular commercial has won a top award.
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[WP] You're driving around your old granddad when he suddenly tells you to take a detour onto a dirt road. You travel for a few miles until you arrive at a ghost town with Old West-style architecture. A plaque stands in the middle of town devoted to the first sheriff. "They remembered me," he says.
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[EU] Two years after Truman left the TV set he'd been living his entire life inside of, he's happily married to his long lost sweetheart. But one morning on his way to work, an awful feeling of déjà vu suddenly sets in.
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