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[WP] A mathematician on the brink of insanity has spent years locked in his apartment, attempting to find a formula that proves God exists. As he nears to a breakthrough, God shows up to explain why the proof shouldn't be made public.
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Artists of today are able to produce photo-real drawings with only a pencil and lots of time. Why is it we don’t have similar photo-real drawings from hundreds of years in the past?
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Movie characters from the 1930s-1950s seem to talk in a form of English obsolete now. Fast-talking, beautifully constructed, wise-cracking lines of dialogue we very much associate from that time. Was this vernacular confined to the fantasy of movies or did people really speak in this way back then?
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Watching Dead Man Walking (1995) a lawyer mentions “no rich man has ever been on death row”. Has a wealthy person (at least a millionaire) in the US ever been on death row? How common is it?
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[WP] A 911 dispatcher is settling in for their nightshift when they answer a call from a crime thirty years in the past.
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A documentary I’m watching stated “Successful gladiators were the movie stars of the first century.” Were they celebrated, sexualised, and worshiped similarly to modern day celebrities?
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[WP] A story about the relationship between an elderly painter and the mysterious person sitting for them.
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