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Post by auntym on Oct 15, 2015 13:43:13 GMT -6
www.dailygrail.com/Fresh-Science/2015/10/Parallel-Possibilities-Are-We-Remembering-Other-Universes Parallel Possibilities: Are We Remembering Other Universes?Posted by Chris Savia 15 Oct 2015 Quantum suicide is one of the most horrifying thought experiments proposed by Hans Moravec. To be brief, rig up a gun to a device measuring the spin value of a proton every ten seconds. The spin value randomly creates a quantum bit as 1 or 0. When the trigger's pulled and the quantum bit comes up 1, the gun fires, killing the subject. Zero? The subject survives, and will survive subsequent attempts should Hugh Everett's many-worlds interpretation prove correct. It's a riff on Schrödinger's cat, where kitty is in a superposition of being alive and dead at the same time. But who wants to risk their lives despite the prospect of quantum immortality? Isn't there a safer way to test this? Enter Daniel Filan and Joseph Hope, two of the Australian National University's brightest, addressing the question, "What would it have looked like if it looked like I were in a superposition?" Their theory has nothing to do with conspiracy theories, disinformation, nor dodgy memories but remembering events from parallel universes, harkening to Fiona Broome's Mandela Effect. In case you've been living under a rock, the most popular example of this theory is the Berenstain Bears controversy. Rap duo Run The Jewels, and many others, insist the children's book series was originally spelled "Berenstein". Filian and Hope discover it's impossible to find definitive proof, but their paper describes how to detect if a person was in a state of superposition. It's a non-lethal take on quantum suicide. The experimenter enters a machine with pen and paper to record the state of an electron as "yes" or "no". After noting their observation, they exit the machine, leaving the data on a table. After, say, 100 tries, the data is reviewed. Should the compiled results be roughly 50/50, then the person wasn't in superposition. If all the results are the same, the experimenter was in superposition. "We also note that this test relies crucially on both the 'memory loss' experienced by the experimenter, and the knowledge of the phase of the initial superposition. The full quantum state of the experimenter, including their memories, is being generated by the machine. This means that it is possible for them to have any memories at all, but we have shown that they must be identical across multiple branches of the superposition, and therefore cannot be correlated with the actual relevant measurement results." What if these memories only appear identical, and the differences are so insignificant where realities are indistinguishable from another? For example, the differences between a pair of realities might be an atom resonating at a lower energy than its parallel doppelgänger. Over these iterations, based upon the experimenter's measurements, a universe with a significant difference like Berenstain/Berenstein could crop up and conflict with "reality". The possibilities are endless, like our infinite universes. www.dailygrail.com/Fresh-Science/2015/10/Parallel-Possibilities-Are-We-Remembering-Other-Universes THE BERENSTEIN BEAR PROBLEM: www.dailygrail.com/Forteana/2015/8/The-Berenstin-Bears-Problem-Alternate-Timelines-and-Spurious-Realities MORE BERENSTEIN BEAR PROBLEM: www.strangerdimensions.com/2015/01/21/the-berenstin-bears-problem-are-we-living-in-an-alternate-worldline/
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Post by auntym on Jun 16, 2017 12:53:00 GMT -6
www.phantomsandmonsters.com/2017/06/daily-2-cents-mandela-effector.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+PhantomsAndMonstersAPersonalJourney+%28Phantoms+and+Monsters%29 Friday, June 16, 2017 Mandela Effect...or Something Else?Posted by Lon Strickler / plus.google.com/+LonStricklerMandela Effect...or Something Else?
I recently received the following account: I had something highly strange recently (another incident in a lifetime of inexplicable experiences) and I would appreciate any thoughts that you might share with me concerning this recent event. I read the obits in my local newspaper occasionally, as I sometimes worry that one of my old friend's parents or someone I have known has passed on and I would want to express condolences...(my own parents died suddenly, very close together, and I know how important that expressions of sympathy can be) The obit that I read last summer (I noticed it because the woman was a prominent lady who was a high school friend of my mothers, and also the mother in law of my son's cousin). She had died of cancer, and it was doubly sad because her grand-daughter was going to be the Queen of our local "Rose Festival" the following October of 2015. This is a great honor in our city, and the woman herself had actually been a Rose Queen in 1955. Her grand-daughter is the daughter of my son's cousin James, so my son and I discussed the news at length: he was getting married in November of that year and was inviting members of that family to his wedding. So I actually shared the news of her death with a few people, and remember that well. Imagine my surprise when I read the local obits last week and saw that she had died recently!!! ?(June 2017) The story of her death was prominently featured, and I read it, in disbelief and utter shock, again and again.....I called my son and he was confused as well, as I had already reported her passing to him two years ago! What can this mean? Did I have a visual precognition of her death, 2 years before it occurred? Did I experience a time slip, going into the future to read her obit? Or did time curve back on itself and confuse me with a double death? This event has truly been worrisome to me-am I losing my mind and memory? The week before Memorial Day of this year, I had the random thought that a distant great aunt of mine had passed, and called several relatives to inquire about it...no, she was not dead, but no one knew anything about her situation-if she ha .recently been ill? Was living with her daughter? (she was 92) But 8 days later l got the news that she had actually died 6 days after my phone calls. What are your thoughts? MC MORE: www.phantomsandmonsters.com/2017/06/daily-2-cents-mandela-effector.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+PhantomsAndMonstersAPersonalJourney+%28Phantoms+and+Monsters%29
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Post by auntym on Feb 19, 2018 14:41:24 GMT -6
www.wakingtimes.com/2018/02/13/the-illusion-of-reality/ The Illusion of RealityDr. Richard Alan Miller / richardalanmiller.com/February 13, 2018 The Mandela Effect, and MemoryA new internet meme, related to confabulation, is known as the Mandela Effect. This is a situation where a number of people have memories that are different from available evidence. The term was coined by Fiona Broome, who says she, and other people, remember Nelson Mandela dying in the 1980s, rather than in 2013. She argues that common memories which appear mistaken could be explained by the existence of parallel universes that are able to interact with each other. A common thread of discussion regarding this “effect” is misremembering the Berenstain Bears being spelled as, “Berenstein Bears.” The “Mandela Effect” is named after South African anti-apartheid revolutionary Nelson Mandela, who became a topic of interest in the year 2010 by people noticing with surprise that he was alive at that time–since many people remembered him having died while incarcerated. Observations of dead people alive again are just one of many types of Mandela Effects, with other notable examples including changes to song lyrics, movie dialogue, movie scenes, physical geography, physiological anatomy, and product names. The Mandela Effect is one of those things most people won’t believe in until it happens to them. Like falling in love or going through heartbreak, the Mandela Effect is something you have to experience in order to fully embrace. And even then, it often takes more than one or two experiences to break through the resistance most of us have to accepting the existence of something that fundamentally challenges our unspoken foundational assumption that facts and historical events don’t change. When we encounter something indicating evidence that in fact, history has changed–it feels shocking to discover some of the lines have been canceled and washed out! We seem to be approaching ‘tipping point’ where it’s getting harder for scoffers to say there’s no such thing as the Mandela Effect / reality shifts / alternate histories. Some scoffers have leapt to the conclusion that Mandela Effect experiencers who are noticing long- familiar words in movies, TV shows, books, and products are most likely suddenly sharing ‘false memories,’ due to the fact that human memories are not fully reliable. When we consider the matter of “confabulation” and “false recollections” at this dawning of the new Quantum Age, we see that we may eventually call such things “alternate recollections,” in recognition of awareness of the fact that we know that each and every one of us exists in a superimposed state, with access to many possible alternate histories, presents, and futures. The idea that the many worlds of quantum physics might be one and the same as the multiverse has been proposed by such esteemed physicists as Dr Yasunori Nomura and Dr Raphael Bousso of UC Berkeley, and increasing numbers of scientists are feeling optimistic that we might yet find evidence that we indeed live in a multiverse. www.wakingtimes.com/2018/02/13/the-illusion-of-reality/
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Post by auntym on May 17, 2018 15:37:01 GMT -6
mysteriousuniverse.org/2018/05/bizarre-reality-shifts-parallel-worlds-and-the-mandela-effect/ Bizarre Reality Shifts, Parallel Worlds, and the Mandela Effectby Brent Swancer / mysteriousuniverse.org/author/brentswancer/May 18, 2018 There has been a lot of talk in recent times of the possibility of other realities and dimensions existing beside out own, all around us, yet mostly unobserved and lying beyond our ability to perceive them. In these alternate realities there are theorized to be other versions of ourselves or the world we think know so well, and for the most part they seem to remain beyond ours, existing separately. However, what if the boundaries between us are more malleable than we know? What if we can not only shift between them, but have already done so in large numbers, at the whim of some tide between dimensional realms that we cannot possibly fathom? By some accounts, this could be happening now as we speak. One of the more bizarre and controversial pieces of supposed evidence put forward for the existence of alternate realities and parallel universes is a phenomenon known as the Mandela Effect, which involves a mass misremembering of the same facts or details by a large number of people. The theory has its origins in 2010 with a paranormal researcher named Fiona Broome, when she found that a fact she clearly remembered seeing on the news, that Nelson Mandela had died in prison in the 1980s, was actually wrong and that he in fact was still alive at the time, indeed living until 2013, when he died from a respiratory illness at his home. This perplexed her, as she so vividly and clearly remembered his death in the 80s, and when she voiced this puzzlement online there was a deluge of others who seemed to share this memory of the same thing, claiming that they clearly recalled seeing it on the news, could envision the reports, and even that they had been taught about it at school. Baffled, Broome went on to formulate the idea that this gap between reality and what was so strongly remembered by large groups of people who had these shared memories was perhaps caused by these people having somehow splintered off and shifted over between parallel dimensions brushing up against each other while keeping the memories of their old reality and timeline, which often did not completely line up with the way things are in the new one. Broome would go on to write numerous articles and books on the subject, until the Mandela Effect achieved its clout and place in the lexicon of the world of the weird, and it has frequently used as a possible hint at alternate realities. As farfetched as this all may sound, it is at the least odd, and there are a formidable number of instances of the supposed Mandela Effect in action that has been amassed over the years. One of the most common examples of the Mandela Effect in action have to do with names or titles that many of us remember quite clearly, but which are not what we may recall. By far the most famous of these is the case of the beloved series of children’s books and subsequent TV shows called The Berenstain Bears. What? Do you think I misspelled that? That’s exactly the point. Millions of people distinctly remember this series being called “The Berenstein Bears,” with an “e.” While this may seem a minor thing, the fact is that the majority of people adamantly insist on this spelling, when the series is really “The Berenstain Bears,” with an “a,” and it has always been spelled that way. Go back and check all of that memorabilia, that’s how it has always been spelled, but then why would so many people so clearly remember and insist upon the wrong spelling? That depends on who you ask. For some it is merely a false collective memory caused by various psychological factors. For others, it is evidence of memories of an alternate reality, one in which it is The Berenstein Bears. One blogger named simply “Reece” explained this fairly wild theory thus: At some time in the last 10 years or so, reality has been tampered with and history has been retroactively changed. The bears really were called the “BerenstEin Bears” when we were growing up, but now reality has been altered such that the name of the bears has been changed post hoc. Somehow, we have all undergone a π/2 phase change in all 4 dimensions so that we moved to the stAin hexadectant, while our counterparts moved to our hexadectant (stEin). They are standing around expressing their confusion about the “Berenstein Bears” and how they all remember “Berenstain Bears” on the covers growing up. Those who remember the name as “Berenstain” are native to this “A” Universe, while those who are sure it’s “Berenstein” traveled over from the “E” Universe. There is even purported evidence that something weird is going on with the “Berenstain Bears.” On one Reddit thread a commenter shared a photo of what was supposed to be incontrovertible proof that the name actually secretly shifted at some point. The photo shows an old and battered VHS tape that on its real label reads the maddening “Berenstain Bears,” yet a sticker placed on the side, likely by a distributing company, clearly reads “Berenstein Bears,” which is seen as evidence that the dimensional slip did not completely erase its history. There have been various other photos brought forward of old TV schedules or copies that say “Berenstein Bears,” which have been brought forward as evidence, but it all remains a mystery and plenty of people do not even recognize that spelling at all. Have we been shuffled between alternate realities at some point? This very strange effect may be more prevalent than we know, as TV shows, movies, and books often have titles that are different than what a large portion of people distinctively remember. A very well-known and popular show was what you may know of as “Sex in the City,” only that is wrong, as it was actually called “Sex AND the City.” This mistake is so pervasive that many awards show hosts and sites have gotten it wrong, but according to the producers it has always been “Sex and the City.” The movie based on the series of vampire novels by author Anne Rice was also fondly remembered by many as “Interview With a Vampire,” but this is actually not correct, in that it is actually called “Interview with THE Vampire.” This mistake is so rampant that it has even wormed its way into Google, but the title many of you remember is wrong. There are even titles of shows that seem to have changed, only to change back to the way they were, oddly enough. The famous Hanna-Barbera cartoon “The Flintstones” apparently inexplicably was written for some time a few years ago as “The Flinstones,” with no “T,” and many people remember being perplexed by that, but now it is back to having the “T.” What in the world is going on there? Did we all shift in and then back out of a dimension in which it is spelled “The Flinstones?” The thing is, this is by far not even the only example of this sort of thing going on by a long shot, and cases of this in action are quite numerous. Another spelling anomaly is that the popular American cereal “Froot Loops” is widely and vividly remembered by many people as being spelled “Fruit Loops,” which is not correct, at least in this reality.There is also the eerie fact that a large number of people, me included, adamantly remember the beloved cartoon series starring Bugs Bunny and Daffy, The Looney Tunes, as being spelled “Looney Toons.” The list goes on and on with all manner of products. Do you remember “Oscar Meyer Wieners?” If you are old enough then you probably even remember the jingle for the commercials, which even spelled out the name with the lyrics “My bologna has a first name. It’s O-S-C-A-R. My bologna has a second name it’s M-E-Y-E-R.” Many people can vividly remember exactly that. However, it was never “Oscar Meyer,” but rather “Oscar Mayer,” which sounds very weird to a large number of people. Are you familiar with the air freshener “Febreeze?” It’s actually spelled “Febreze.” Huh? Do you know the shoe brand “Sketchers?” If you do, then you will be surprised to know that it doesn’t exist, except as “Skechers,” as it has always been known, without the “t” in the name. It goes on and on. The popular U.S. chicken fast food joint is not spelled “Chic-fil-A,” but rather “Chick-fil-A,” and always has been, which seems to really rub people the wrong way when pointed out, but it is true. Also frequently put forward is the logo for the car company Ford, which a vast number of people seem to remember differently than it actually looks, specifically they don’t recall it ever having that squiggly pig’s tail shape on the “F,” even though the logo has always looked like that. When faced with the actual logo it is often reported by these people that it looks somewhat jarringly off. There is also the fact that the poor university student’s standby was actually “Cup Noodles” and not “Cup of Noodles” as many of you may adamantly remember. CONTINUE READING: mysteriousuniverse.org/2018/05/bizarre-reality-shifts-parallel-worlds-and-the-mandela-effect/
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Post by auntym on May 22, 2018 17:59:54 GMT -6
mysteriousuniverse.org/2018/05/the-mandela-effect-at-the-movies/ The Mandela Effect at the Moviesby Brent Swancer / mysteriousuniverse.org/author/brentswancer/ May 22, 2018 A very strange phenomenon that has been reported by vast swaths of the population is known as the Mandela Effect, which entails a mass misremembering of events, facts, or details. These can involve everything from pop culture to historical events, and often leave those who are faced with a reality much different than they remember in shock or bewilderment. It is an uncomfortable feeling to have the memories and reality you know and remember to be fundamentally different than what one thought, and instances of the Mandela Effect are numerous. One area that has proven to be a wellspring of examples of the Mandela Effect are movies, in many cases ones that are loved all over the world and yet are not as we may remember them to be. Starting with one of the older movies where the Mandela Effect can be seen we have the iconic The Wizard of Oz, which actually has numerous instances of this in effect. The first is the famous line when Dorothy says to her dog, Toto, “Toto, I don’t think we’re in Kansas anymore.” It is such an iconic line that it is even known by people who have never seen the movie, and it has become a phrase in popular use to signify that things are getting weird. However, Dorothy never says that. She in fact says “Toto, I’ve a feeling we’re not in Kansas anymore.” It is close, but enough of a discrepancy that it drives people nuts. The Wizard of OzAlso in The Wizard of Oz is the famous scene when the wicked witch commands her army of creepy flying monkeys to “Fly, my pretties, fly!” only she does not say that as you may strongly remember, but rather just says “Fly! Fly! Fly!” This is such a well-known and widespread mistake that the line is often misquoted in popular culture to this day. There is also the line near the end of the film when our ragtag group finally reaches the titular Wizard and Toto pulls back the curtain to reveal an old man at the controls of his machinery, invoking a thunderous voice that many people remember as saying “Pay no mention to the man behind the curtain!” Yet, this is not said. The line is actually “Pay no attention to THAT man behind the curtain.” The Wizard of Oz has even more instances of the Mandela Effect, which we will come back to later in the article. Another older, but still rather famous line from a movie that is often misrepresented is from the film Oliver Twist, when Oliver asks the evil taskmaster Mr. Brumble for a second helping of porridge. Most will probably remember very well that he says “Please sir, can I have some more?” but what he really says is “Please sir, I WANT some more.” This line is also often misquoted in popular culture, and really rubs people the wrong way when they realize the line they thought they knew is wrong, so convinced are they of this memory. There are numerous other lines from more modern movies that are persistently remembered wrong by most people, and some of them can be quite jarring when one is confronted with the real line. A very memorable one is the line from the movie Jaws, when the character Brody takes a look at their inadequate boat and tells the grizzled shark hunter Quint “We’re gonna need a bigger boat.” This is the line, right? Because they are a team about to go hunt the shark together and “WE” need a bigger boat, right? You may remember it so intensely, but no, he actually says “YOU’RE gonna need a bigger boat,” which seems to not make sense in this context and is much different than we all think we recall. Yet another example of an oft-quoted line being wrong comes from the Clint Eastwood starring 1971 action film Dirty Harry. After running down a criminal and having a brief shootout Harry looms over the criminal, points his gun at him, and says “Do you feel lucky, punk?” This is quoted this way again and again, but it is wrong. The real line is “Do I feel lucky?” with the whole line being “You’ve got to ask yourself one question. Do I feel lucky? Well, do ya, punk?” This is another very unsettling one when people realize it, because so many remember it wrong in exactly the same way, and this line has become a rather famous example of the Mandela Effect. Dirty HarryMoving on we come to the 1982 Harrison Ford science fiction classic Blade Runner. Every fan of the original worth their salt knows the monologue that the replicant Ray Batty gives at the end just before he dies, right? The one about C-Beams glittering in the dark and those attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. All of these memories will be lost “like tears in the rain.” Many people can probably quote this whole memorable monologue by heart, but they are probably quoting it wrong, because Batty actually never says “like tears in THE rain,” but rather just “tears in rain,” with no “the.” It is enough of a change from what we insist we remember to seem strikingly odd. The famous courtroom drama starring Al Pacino, ...And Justice for All also has the famous and oft-quoted line “I’m out of order? You’re out of order! This whole court’s out of order!” which is not even what he says, but rather the much different “You’re out of order! You’re out of order! The whole trial is out of order! They’re out of order!” The list of such lines goes on and on. Do you remember in E.T. the Extraterrestrial when ET says “Phone home”? He actually says the off-sounding “Home phone.” James Bond never says “The name’s Bond, James Bond,” but instead says simply “My name is Bond, James Bond.” In the movie The Silence of the Lambs, Hannibal Lecter never says “Hello, Clarice,” but just “Good morning,” so where in the world did “Hello, Clarice” come from? The Silence of the Lambs has another such anomalous line when the serial killer Buffalo Bill is giving instructions to his captured prey to apply a lotion to her skin. As he looks on many people will clearly remember him saying “It puts lotion on its skin,” but he in fact says “It RUBS lotion on its skin.” This mistake has also been regurgitated again and again in popular culture in TV shows such as Family Guy and South Park, but it is wrong. As with many of these it’s a small, subtle difference, but one that so many people remember exactly the same wrong way, and which has a way of being a bit weird and of not sounding right on some fundamental level. There is also the first of Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings films, The Fellowship of the Ring. After confronting the terrifying, monstrous Balrog the whole place starts dramatically crumbling down around our heroes and the wizard Gandalf, which incidentally is also oddly remembered as being incorrectly spelled Ghandalf by a lot of people, finds himself precariously hanging from a yawning chasm below him. He then commands the rest of the group to, as you may remember “Run, you fools!” However, he really says “Fly, you fools!” which doesn’t even really seem to make sense in this situation, but there it is. Also quite odd is the line from the alien invasion movie Independence Day, wherein Will Smith’s character shoots down one of the aliens and then punches it out while saying “Welcome to Earth!” It is very often remembered that he says this with the pronunciation “Welcome to Earf,” but he very clearly and unambiguously says just “Earth.” Not even animated films are exempt from this phenomenon. In the film Snow White, what do the seven dwarfs sing during their march? Can you picture that song? It’s “Heigh Ho, Heigh Ho, it’s off to work we go!” Right? Wrong. They actually sing “Heigh Ho, Heigh Ho, it’s home from work we go!” This is quite an unsettling revelation for many, as it is a song that they remember so fondly from their childhood and which they feel they must surely correctly remember, but the dwarves are not off to work, but rather off to their home. “It’s off to work we go” is indeed said once in the movie, and is almost like a false start, but the main song in the film and its official lyrics have them singing “home from work.” Weird. The Seven DwarfsThe animated movie Alice in Wonderland also has a misremembered line, as the Cheshire Cat never says “We’re all mad here,” as many are sure he says in the movie, but rather “Most everyone is mad here.” The Alice and Wonderland film hosts another example of the Mandela Effect in that the characters Tweedledee and Tweedledum are almost always remembered as having tiny propellors on their hats, yet go back and look and you’ll find that there are no propellors but rather little yellow flags. There are also the “non-quotes,” which are famous lines everyone distinctly remembers but which never actually even existed at all, such as the “Hello, Clarice” line from The Silence of the Lambs. For instance, picture the science fiction movie The Matrix in your mind. Do you remember when Neo finally confronts Morpheus and is told about the true nature of reality in the “red pill” scene? Morpheus goes into a monologue that begins with “What if I told you…” Right? You can probably totally remember that line and hear that clearly in your head in Laurence Fishburne’s deep voice. The thing is, “What if I told you” is never said in this scene, nor is it uttered in the movie at all. This baffles a lot of people because the line is very strongly remembered and iconic to the point that it is even a meme, but in fact it was never said. Where did it come from and why did it pop into our collective heads so intensely? CONTINUE READING: mysteriousuniverse.org/2018/05/the-mandela-effect-at-the-movies/
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Post by auntym on Mar 1, 2019 16:44:49 GMT -6
mysteriousuniverse.org/2019/03/the-mandela-effect-and-geography/ The Mandela Effect and Geographyby Brent Swancer / mysteriousuniverse.org/author/brentswancer/March 2, 2019 One very strange phenomenon that has become more popular and pervasive in the world of the paranormal is what has come to be called the Mandela Effect. It deals with the preponderance of people who have very vivid memories of things being differently than they are, of recalling people, events, and places differently than the way they are represented in actual reality, a sort of a mass misremembering of the same facts or details by a large number of people. This can apply to popular culture such as movies, or extend to historical events and beyond, and it has even popped up in the form of people remembering the actual geography of the world differently than what it is. The theory itself has its origins in 2010 with a paranormal researcher named Fiona Broome, when she found that a fact she clearly remembered seeing on the news, that Nelson Mandela had died in prison in the 1980s, was actually wrong and that he in fact was still alive at the time, indeed living until 2013, when he died from a respiratory illness at his home. This perplexed her, as she so vividly and clearly remembered his death in the 80s, and when she voiced this puzzlement online there was a deluge of others who seemed to share this memory of the same thing, claiming that they clearly recalled seeing it on the news, could envision the reports, and even that they had been taught about it at school. The name eventually stuck as a new phenomenon that became a persistent feature of the lexicon of the paranormal, and the term “Mandela Effect” stuck, encompassing all manner of feature of our reality that for whatever reasons a massive number of people remember completely wrong, perhaps suggesting the possibility of alternate parallel dimensions beyond our comprehension. A very common facet of the Mandela Effect with regards to geography is the surprisingly large number of people who distinctly and clearly remember whole countries being different shapes, sizes, or in different positions than they were before. The most dramatic of these are those places that seem to have completely changed location. A very famous example of this is the island nation of New Zealand. Without looking at a map, where do you picture it being? Does it lie to the northeast of Australia or the southeast? Is it to the east of the continent or the west? The correct answer is that New Zealand is located to the far southeast of Australia, approximately 1,200 miles from the mainland, but for many this might be quite a jolt. It appears that there is a large and very vocal population of people, in rare cases even those who actually live in New Zealand, who insist that this is wrong according to their memory. Interestingly, there seem to be different camps of those who remember the location differently. For some it is supposed to be much farther south than it is, for others they learned it was to the northeast rather than the southeast, and usually remembered as much closer to the Australia mainland than actually is, and for others still it is supposed to lie completely on the other side of the Australian continent to the west rather than the east. One Reddit commenter says of this all: I remember it west of Australia. Sixteen years ago I bought a globe. I was actually thinking about Australia and New Zealand and how I didn’t know much about either, so I thought I should really know where they are. So I looked at my globe and saw it as a big landmass west of Australia. I thought ‘this is a good way to remember it, it seems exotic to me because it is further away from the United States, further west. This seems to be no minor quibble or random mistake for some of these people, as there are plenty of people who seem to be genuinely shocked and horrified to learn the real location. As another Reddit commenter says, it was practically life-changing for him to be confronted with this anomalous geographical discrepancy: When this all came to my attention a couple days ago I go over to my sister’s room and look for this globe we’ve had for years. First place I look is for New Zealand northeast area of Australia… lo and behold, New Zealand is now southeast of Australia in the middle of nowhere. At that point it felt like I had been kicked in the stomach. I won the geography award in grade school and have a plaque that my parents still have on display, and I’m willing to scan it to prove it. Geography is something I’ve always had a keen awareness of. One commonly held memory of where people think New Zealand isIt is not only New Zealand either, and there are other island countries that people adamantly insist were once in different locations. A popular one is the country of Sri Lanka. Again, where do you remember it as being? If you said it is obviously directly to the south of India, then you are wrong. Sri Lanka actually lies to the southeast of India, a fact that seems to really bother a lot of people who insist that it should be directly to the south of the tip of mainland India. One commenter on the site The Mandela Effect has said of this: I have interviewed 5 persons regarding the location of Sri Lanka(ceylon)and asked them to draw a map, all of them drew it as they remembered and it was far far downwards, further I asked them to draw a horizontal line touching the tip of India’s extremity, the line went over the sea, all clear… and all were cynics. Almost everybody remembers the country located further south beyond the tip of India. Being Indian I have the advantage of getting genuine feed back, and the peculiarity of Sri Lanka is that India is the only neighbor and people in India are aware of this sensivity and are keen enough to notice the location. Other island nations are also constantly remembered as being in the wrong place as well. Cuba is often remembered as having been closer to Florida than Mexico, but it is actually closer to the latter. It is 214 km from Mexico and 228 km from Florida. Japan is also hotly debated, with a great many people convinced that it used to be farther south, nearer to China, when it actually sits much farther north than is recalled, next to Russia. Greenland is also remembered as in the wrong place, and many are quite shocked to learn that it not only is only 14 miles from Canada, but that it is actually much larger than recalled, a full 836,000 Sq. miles in area, about 21 times the size of Iceland. Speaking of different sizes and shapes, a large number of people also remember Russia as looking much different than it does, claiming that it looks decidedly wrong when looking at it now, to the point that it is baffling for some. To anyone who correctly remembers the location, shapes, and sizes of these places all of this talk of how they are remembered differently must seem absurd, but it’s interesting how persistent and uniform many of these false memories are, how badly they jar and unsettle those faced with cold, hard reality, and they are enough that there are whole forums devoted to heatedly discussing these issues. Just about as bizarre as remembering countries in different places are those locations that seem to have appeared from nowhere or to have conversely disappeared off the face of the Earth. By far the weirdest and most intensely discussed of these among Mandela Effect theorists nowadays is a Norwegian archipelago in the Arctic Ocean called Svalbard, which is an Unincorporated area of Norway. It is a large land, 23,561 sq. miles in dimension, with a rich history spanning back to the 12th century and its own culture, traditions, and people. The problem is that for a lot of people it should not be there, and looks decidedly out of place on maps, just sitting out there where nothing existed before. How could so many people misremember this place as not existing? It might seem rather ridiculous if you remember correctly, but there is a very vocal contingent of people who are certain that Svalbard never existed until very recently for them. Svalbard Another place that quite a few people don’t remember existing before is the Canadian territory of Nunavut, which is the largest territory of Canada and is larger than Texas, California and France combined. Some people find this baffling, as they have never heard of it, and although it is a relatively new territory, being split from the Northwest Territories in 1999, it still is rather jarring for a surprising number of people. Perhaps even stranger is a country that was in existence from the Middle Ages all the way up until the 1800s, called Great Tartary. It was considered a major power at the time, and was vast in area, being even larger than Russia, positioned in the northern part of Asia and bounded by Siberia on the north and west. Although it is no longer a country, for such a large country with such an illustrious history it seems odd that so few people have ever heard of it, with many insisting that it never existed before. Adding to all of the anomalies we have looked at so far are persistent and pervasive miscellaneous geographical conundrums that a lot of people remember wrong in the same way. A common one is that there is the vast number of people who swear that they distinctly learned that the United States has 51 states, or even 52, rather than the correct 50, and insist that in their remembered history Puerto Rico is a state. This might seem ludicrous to some, but they are adamant that their memory on this is very clear. Another is the location of Fort Knox, the military base famous for its gold reserves, which is located in the state of Kentucky, but which many very clearly remember as being in Tennessee. There are even those who claim to have been stationed there or know people who were, who insist that they were in Tennessee, not Kentucky. Weird. Fort Knox Again, for those who remember this all correctly, this must all seem pretty wild. It must seem to obviously be just the result of igannance or stupidity mixed with the fact that most people don’t look at maps on a regular basis and their mind just sort of fills in the blanks of what they don’t know. Yet, a lot of the people who claim these discrepancies between what they remember and reality are well-educated, normal people, and these mistakes are so clearly remembered wrongly in a similar way across the board that it is at the very least an interesting psychological phenomenon, and perhaps something far stranger. People are so convinced that the world once looked differently that there are even whole maps available online of how the world should look to them versus how it actually appears. Why do these people remember these geographical details so wrongly and to such a degree that it is very often mentally troubling for them when confronted with the truth? It largely depends on who you ask. For proponents of the Mandela Effect, this is all indicative of some sort of mysterious mass shift between two different realities. This relies on a concept known as the “multiverse,” which proposes that there are infinite parallel and offshoot universes coexisting with ours, with infinite permutations and infinite versions of you inhabiting many of them. In some of these alternate dimensions the difference could be very slight, such as you wearing a red t-shirt today instead of a blue one. In another, things could be more dramatic, such as having a different president, another one in which history is different, or even one in which the dinosaurs never went extinct. In relation to the Mandela Effect, the idea is at some point a number of people has transferred over to a different timeline in a parallel dimension, while retaining the memories of how things were in their own reality. These two realities might be nearly identical, with the only differences being subtle yet jarring, such as in this case the location or size of a country or place. Making it even more bizarre is that this may have involved a straight swap with the you from this new reality and the other one, meaning that while one version of you wonders where, say, Svalbard came from, the other you from this reality is in the one you came from, wondering where in the world Svalbard went. For proponents of this cause of the Mandela Effect, it is all caused by the fact that the details and timelines of the two parallel universe don’t line up exactly, which can drive these people nuts and lodge into their psyche like splinters in the mind. How this shift happened or how many people were involved is anyone’s guess, and the ones who remember correctly are the ones who never left, and are safely in their home reality. It’s all a very interesting, sci-fi sounding concept that is great as a thought experiment, but unfortunately there is ultimately no evidence at all that this has actually happened to any degree other than the insistence of those who are absolutely sure that reality does not match what they so clearly and potently remember. This forces us to look at more mundane possible explanations, and this mainly comes down to pointing out just how unreliable and malleable memories can be. Indeed, it has been show that memories can be influenced or even created with enough suggestion and belief, and false memories are surprisingly common. Although we still don’t fully understand how memories work or how our brain processes them, it has been found that memories can be subject to changes and evolve or be warped over time, and this can be influenced by how confident you are in that memory, even if it’s wrong, and what those around you think. As the site Stuff.com New Zealand says: It seems that the act of remembering something over and over again builds your confidence in that memory – even if you are more and more wrong every time. Which, really, explains the Mandela Effect well. You may stumble upon the community with a few things misremembered, a few details out of place, then by virtue of reading about hundreds of others who agree with you, set that wrong memory in stone. Suddenly you aren’t thinking “oh I thought that was there,” you’re thinking “I definitely know that it was in a different place”. Your ideology is rewarded and reinforced, as it is in any community. Is that what is going on here? Are so many people just conjuring up these memories in their heads? Is this the result of some sort of mental short circuit or psychological trick, or is there something else at work to it all? Has the world changed from one universe and timeline to another for some people? There are numerous other examples of the Mandela Effect and geography, and I have only presented some of the odder and more widely discussed, but they all seem perplexing and widespread enough to give food for thought, regardless of whether one remembers it the “right way” or not. Considering there is not much we are able to do to prove the existence of other realities, or that people have traveled unwittingly between them, it is likely that the debate will continue, with those who think it is all an illusion on one side and those individuals for whom the world looks different than their memory on the other. mysteriousuniverse.org/2019/03/the-mandela-effect-and-geography/
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Post by auntym on Mar 5, 2019 14:29:18 GMT -6
mysteriousuniverse.org/2019/03/company-logos-mascots-and-the-mandela-effect/ Company Logos, Mascots, and the Mandela Effectby Brent Swancer / mysteriousuniverse.org/author/brentswancer/ March 6, 2019 How well do you really know the world you see? Is reality as you think it to be, or is there something a bit off to what you see when you look around you? For many people there have been odd anomalies of things appearing different than they remember, some deep sense that something is not right, and that details and facts they thought they knew before are just plain wrong. This can be extremely unnerving to those who experience it, and it is a phenomenon that has come to be known as the Mandela Effect, a sort of mass misremembering of facts that people thought they knew, but which have turned out to be wrong or completely nonexistent. It extends to all facets of the world from movies, to history, to even geography, and here we will take a look at logos and mascots for companies that seem to be shockingly out of place and alien-looking to those who remember differently. One example of the Mandela Effect materializing in company brands and logos is spellings or punctuation that seem very off, bizarre, or just downright wrong for those who remember them much differently than they are. This can be seen in a wide range of products across the board. A popular one is the beloved children’s cereal Froot Loops. What, do you think I misspelled that? That’s the point. What many, many people remember as being spelled “Fruit Loops” has never been spelled that way, but rather with “Froot.” It is especially jarring as it doesn’t even seem to make sense, as it is fruit flavored cereal so should be “fruit,” right? Wrong, apparently. At least in this reality. Also a very out of place and off spelling for many people is that of the logo for the popular cartoons “Looney Tunes,” which a lot of people remember as “Looney Toons.” Again, this seems to make more sense because they are cartoons. What are Looney “Tunes” anyway? Why would it be spelled that way? The same can be said about the air freshener brand “Febreze,” which many will insist should be spelled “Febreeze,” which makes more sense for an air freshening product but is wrong, and it has never been spelled that way. The correction fluid “White-Out” is also not spelled that way, as many believe it should be, but is rather “Wite- Out,” which looks very out of place for these individuals. The list is long with this one. Many of you may own a pair of the popular shoe brand that you may remember as Sketchers, but are you sure that is how it is spelled? In reality it is “Skechers,” with no “t.” Go ahead and check the label, I’ll wait. Speaking of shoes, there seems to be a large number of people who clearly and unmistakably remember the brand Adidas being spelled with two “d”s to spell “Addidas,” and it can be quite a jolt to those who have this particular memory discrepancy, as one Reddit commenter says on a Mandela Effect forum: Hi I am from Mexico, it is very interesting, never commented before on this forum because I do not share most things you claim to have. But now I see this publication I am surprised because not long ago I had a discussion with my brother about this brand name. The time I saw it was called adidas gave me shaking chills and met the mandela effect. For me it has always been “addidas” and it’s frustrating being the only one who remembers it well and nobody believes you. Food and drink brands have a lot of this going on. Do you remember the popular brand Oscar Meyer? You can probably even sing the catchy jingle in your head right now, which even spells the name out, “my baloney has a last name it’s M-E-Y-E-R.” But no, it is actually spelled “Oscar Mayer,” with an “a,” a small but very irritating difference for those who remember it differently and have that wrong song stuck in their heads right now. Instead of baloney, you might be in the mood for chicken, and go down to the chicken restaurant chain that you remember as “Chic-Fil-A,” only to find that it is now spelled “Chick-Fil-A.” How about a burger at MacDonald’s? Although you’ll find that it is actually spelled “McDonald’s,” as it always has been. Or maybe you’ll stay in and have a good old fashioned bowl of Cup O’ Noodles, only that’s not what they are called at all is it? Look at the package and they are now just spelled Cup Noodles. Make a sandwich instead? Maybe a peanut butter sandwich with “Jiffy” peanut butter? Too bad there is no Jiffy peanut butter, only “Jif.” The bottom one is correct For desert you might want some, candy such as, they are called “Pixie Stix” right? No, I’m afraid not, they are “Pixy Sticks.” Want a Kit-Kat? Only there is no hyphen there where a lot of people remember there being one before, and it is now KitKat. Some cereal then? How about some Rice Krispies, not “Rice Krispy” as you may remember? After all of this spelling bizarreness you may just want to sit back and have a drink, and reach for the trusty bottle of Johnny Walker whiskey. Too bad “Johnny Walker” does not exist and never has, but you can have a bottle of “Johnnie Walker,” which is its actual spelling and always has been. OK, let’s lay off the alcohol and just have a Coke Zero, but that doesn’t exist either, as it is and always has been “Coca-Cola Zero.” It’s enough to want you to get out of here and take a vacation to relax your addled mind, just don’t try to take “Alaskan Airlines, “because it doesn’t exist, except as “Alaska Airlines.” No hyphen It seems odd that so many people can be so surprised by these spellings being different than what they are sure they remember for popular brands they see all of the time, but there are whole forums of people baffled by this, and it is a recurring phenomenon across a wide range of people from all walks of life. Adding to the weirdness are those company logos that are spelled right, but which look very strange and awkward when looked at now. Perhaps the most well-known of these is the logo for the car manufacturer Ford, which looks incredibly weird and much different than it does in the memory of a very large number of people. The strange detail lies in the little squiggle on the “F,” which looks completely out of place and jarring to these people, although that has been the logo since 1914. The real logo as it exists is the bottom one Car companies seem to get this a lot, because there is also the logo for the manufacturer Volkswagen, (not Volkswagon, sorry), which looks very strange with its V and W separated by a line, a detail that is really grating for people who remember it differently and look at it now. The company Volvo also has a logo that looks very anomalous to people who don’t remember it ever having that arrow sticking out of the side of it. The one on the left is the real logo The Japanese car maker Mazda also has a logo with its own oddity, as many people remember the “Z” as being solid, not with the separation the logo displays. This one is perplexing in that a lot of the people who have noticed this discrepancy claim it is a recent change, with one Reddit commenter saying: So apparently the MAZDA logo’s Z has always been separated and not solid. Unbelivable, I swear since I discovered the Mandela Effect I made it an effort to keep track of logos especially car logos. My family had a MAZDA for MANY years and it never looked like that. This must have been recent because I do not recall this being an ME when I discovered the Mandela Effect. I even looked at MAZDA a few times recently and thinking “Ok, the MAZDA logo is still the same.” But now the Z is not solid anymore. Also I wonder why are car logos the most targeted for the Mandela Effect? It’s not only car logos, though. Another logo that most people must surely feel they are familiar with is the one for the world renowned drink Coca Cola, only for a lot of people there is a troubling detail there now, in that there is a hyphen between the words Coca-Cola that they are sure was either never there before or in a different place. Even odder still are those who insist it should be spelled “Coke-Cola.” The logo for the fast food chain “Subway” is equally confounding for Mandela Effect sufferers, as a large portion of people don’t remember that arrow coming out of the bottom of the “S.” Two that have recently been discussed a lot on Mandela Effect forums are the logos for the store Target and the office supply chain Staples. Many people envision the Target logo as having more rings than it actually does, insisting that it looks decidedly strange the way it is. Volvo- the one on the top is correct. Coca-Cola- the one on the bottom is the right one For Staples, a persistent memory is that the “L” has always been just a normal “L,” but recently a number of vocal people have found it shocking that the L actually is stylized to look like a bent open paper clip. It is enough to seriously unsettle some people who are sure it was not like that before, and one commenter on Reddit says: I drove by Staples today and noticed the paperclip on the sign and made a mental note of it. I’ve been doing this for the last few months so that I can catch reality alterations quickly when they happen. This afternoon it was the paperclip. After reading this thread – I got in my car and drove back to the Staples and it has now altered here. So this just happened within the last few hours. After you’ve been researching this as long as I have you begin to see the pattern. This is a fake artificial reality and we’re getting the hell out of here. The real logo is the one on the bottom And now we come to yet another Mandela Effect oddity of the corporate world, and that is mind-boggling changes that seem to have happened to well-known, often beloved company mascots. Let’s start with one of the biggest companies in the world, Disney. Everyone knows their most famous mascot and character, Mickey Mouse, right? Can you imagine right now what he looks like and what he’s wearing? Do you envision him with suspenders on, which many people do? Well, if so, you might be surprised to learn that he does not wear suspenders at all. This comes as quite a shock to people who claim that this was one of his most iconic features, but in reality never existed. No suspenders Also with Disney is the opening logo reveal for many of their animated movies, which feature Tinkerbell. A lot of you reading this right now can probably picture that intro quite clearly. Tinkerbell flies across the screen and writes out the word “Disney” with her magic wand before finally dotting the eye. It is an iconic intro that people love, but the problem is it does not exist. Go back and watch all of those intros if you don’t believe it. Although there are a few versions of intros that do feature Tinkerbell, in not a single one of them does she ever write out the word Disney with her wand. Other famous mascots have changes that are no less perplexing for the people who notice them. For instance, can you picture Kellogg’s Tony the Tiger with his Frosted Flakes? What color is his nose? It is black right? Because tigers have black noses? Actually, look now and you’ll find his nose is very noticeably blue. The real Tony the Tiger is the one on the right How about the Monopoly Man from the game Monopoly? Does he wear a monocle? The answer is, no he does not, and never has. The mascot for the Laughing Cow dairy company is a red cow that many people remember as having a gold ring through the nose, yet the character has no ring. Pokemon’s famous mascot Pikachu is also different than what most people think, as he does not have the black tip on his tail that many insist should be there. The one on the right is the real Monopoly Man These are all just a few of the many examples of these anomalies out there, which I think perhaps represent more well-known brands and characters, but there are countless others, and all of them lead us to the question of just what is going on here? Why are so many people so completely certain that they remember these things so differently from the way they really are? Making it even more unusual is that sometimes these people notice the changes out of the blue, as if they have suddenly popped up, so why should this be? Why is it that some people remember things differently while others do not? It is important to point out that in most cases these are not just little errors that people write-off, but rather oddities that can really unsettle and disturb those who notice them, causing great stress and fear that they are losing their minds, even though they may be normally very intelligent, well-balanced individuals. There are a few theories as to what these people could be experiencing, ranging from the fantastical to the more mundane. For Mandela Effect devotees and people who carefully follow these developments, this is all indicative of some sort of shift in reality being experienced by these people. One reason for this could be that those who experience these discrepancies may have shifted to a different, alternate reality or dimension that is almost identical to this one, but not quite, and the memories they have retained from their old one clash with the reality of the new one. Such a shift is also sometimes theorized as being possibly caused by the retroactive altering of reality or the creation of offshoot timelines, perhaps from the use of time travel or even some sort of quantum ripple caused by projects such as the Large Hadron Collider. The ones who remember correctly are the ones who have not shifted or been altered, or at least for some reason don’t remember the changes. There is also the idea that this could be evidence that we are living in a computer generated reality, and these changes are the result of tampering, reprogramming, or even bugs, “glitches in the Matrix,” so to speak. This talk of parallel universes, time travel, and computer generated realities is all very fascinating, but could there be something else behind these cases? With changes of company logos, it obviously could in some cases be that the company has simply done just that, and changed their logo. This happens all of the time, and has already been used to explain Mandela Effects people have claimed to have experienced with the logos for Starbucks and Pepsi, both of which have been changed in recent years without the knowledge of the general populace. However, this does not explain the cases we have looked at here, with logos and spellings that have not been changed by the companies. Psychologists who have looked at the Mandela Effect have suggested that these could be false memories caused by a phenomenon called “confabulation,” which is basically your brain mixing up memories in order to make sense of what it sees, and which can create new memories which the person can really believe to be true. It is basically memory defects and filling in of blanks that you take to be real. For example, with “Froot Loops” your brain might assume that “Froot” should naturally be spelled “fruit.” It can’t stand that “Froot” spelling and so it convinces you that “Fruit Loops” is correct and you start to believe that that is the way it has always been and that you remember it that way. This would also work with many of the spellings we have looked at here. It can be seen in that granddaddy of all Mandela Effects, the large portion of people who think the beloved children’s characters “The Berenstain Bears” should be spelled “Berenstein Bears.” Since there are way more names spelled with “stein” at the end, your brain thinks that is the way it should be and you become convinced that that is the way you remember it. In this case this is all just a mental glitch. Also is the idea that this is false memories created through what is called the “misinformation effect,” which is the molding of memories based on outside influences, especially for things that you never really looked at all that closely before. So for instance, although you may see these logos all of the time, how closely do you really study them? Look at it this way, how much do you really pay attention to most normal mundane things you see all of the time? Without looking can you say exactly what your husband or wife or best friend was wearing today? So if someone says, “She was wearing a black sweater, right?” and then another chimes in “Yeah, I saw her wearing that too!” you may start to remember them wearing that black sweater as well, even though it was actually a grey cardigan. In this case, these are memories being sort of created by a combination of many others claiming them, and the fact that you just never really took a good hard look at what these logos looked like in great detail in the first place. This is all confounded by the concept of what is called “cognitive dissonance,” which means that you are more likely to hold onto a fond memory of the way things were and the way you misremember them than the actual reality. If you misremember the name of your favorite childhood cartoon as “Looney Toons,” then that is what it becomes for you, no matter what anyone else says. Add in a dash of confirmation bias, which would be your desire to seek out those who agree with you and value their input more than those who disagree, and you get whole forums and communities of people who misremember that show as “Looney Toons” and feed off their misunderstandings until they are absolutely certain that this is how it was spelled, graduating to tales of time travel and interdimensional shifts to try and make sense of it all. Regardless of these attempts at rationalizing the Mandela Effect away, it is still rather odd that we are still left with large portions of the population who remember the same things wrong in the same way. Not only this, they are very often well-educated people who are often are from different places or different ages or backgrounds, yet they still strongly remember these anomalies that don’t line up with reality with the same details and are absolutely very adamant about that they remember correctly and that these memories are as clear as can be. They are completely sure that reality is not what it seems to be, and many of these people notice these anomalies on their own, with no coaching or influence from others, usually glad to see that others share their wrong memories and that they are not alone or crazy. Whether this is all caused by time travel, hopping through dimensions, computer generated realities, tampering with timelines, or just psychological tricks and mental glitches, the Mandela Effect is a fascinating phenomenon that is not likely to go away any time soon. mysteriousuniverse.org/2019/03/company-logos-mascots-and-the-mandela-effect/
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Post by Deleted on Jul 3, 2019 16:09:43 GMT -6
The Mandela effect is, depending on who you ask, either a weird phenomenon where large groups of people misremember the exact same given thing in the exact same way, or the pseudoscientific belief that some differences between one's memories and the real world are caused by changes to past events in the timeline. Many proponents of the latter (which is the version this article focuses on) believe it is caused by accidental travel between alternate universes, although some others propose that history has been deliberately altered after the fact by malicious extradimensional beings within the same timeline or by experiments at CERN home.cern/science/experiments It was named after Nelson Mandela, whom some people erroneously believed to have died in prison in the 1980s. who did die in prison and even had a movie made about him starring Denzel Washington.) Another common false memory is thinking the title of the children's book series The Berenstain Bears is spelled as The Berenstein Bears. Forrest Gump – Life IS like a box of… 51 or 52 United States? Looney Tunes or Looney Toons Berenstein or Berenstain Bears? Nelson Mandela Died in Prison? Jif or Jiffy Peanut Butter? mandelaeffect.com/
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