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10 Mysterious Examples of the Mandela Effect - YouTube
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let's do a little experiment picture the
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monopoly man
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in your head right now who by the way
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goes by mr monopoly incidentally and
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canonically
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is actually named rich uncle penny bags
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what kind of middle name is
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uncle besides the point what does mr
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monopoly
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look like maybe something like this
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well if this is the mr monopoly you are
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picturing sorry to say
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you have fallen victim to the mandela
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effect and you're not alone
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the monopoly mascot has never not once
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been featured with a monocle fairly
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simple mistake to make but
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how is it possible that so many people
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have experienced this very specific
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memory mix-up according to associate
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professor of cognitive psychology dr
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gene brewer it's a matter of memory
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reconstruction as brewer told mental
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floss in 2019
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when you recall an event you use
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memories around it taking elements or
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pieces of other events
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and fitting them where they make sense
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for mr monopoly it's believed that many
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people
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are conflating his appearance with that
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of mr
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peanut another prevalent fancy man
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mascot from around the same time period
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who
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dons a top hat a cane and a monocle
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hi i'm justin dodd and welcome to a
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special bonus episode of the list show
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from my living room let's see what other
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memories we can rewrite
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so where does the name mandela effect
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come from
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a little over a decade ago blogger and
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paranormal researcher fiona broome
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coined the term in reference to one
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false shared memory in particular
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the death of nelson mandela before you
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start to question your sanity yes the
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famous anti-apartheid leader did
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pass away that part is true but the how
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and the when
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is apparently not something we all agree
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on it turns out that many people have a
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memory
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of him dying while imprisoned sometime
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in the 1980s
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this is odd because nelson mandela died
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in 2013
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as a free man in response to this
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bizarre apparently widespread phenomenon
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a whole slew of other instances of the
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mandela effect were
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revealed how about the famous peanut
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butter brand jiffy
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a classic you can probably still see it
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in grocery stores today
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and picture that famous label complete
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with the y
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at the end well unfortunately there is
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no jiffy there is
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jif which is what you're probably
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thinking of but why do so many of us
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think it's called
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jiffy dr brewer once again points to
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confused memory reconstruction
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skippy peanut butter is probably
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directly adjacent to jif when you're
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reaching for it at publix
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and then jif and skippy somehow become
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jiffy
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this phenomenon is not unique to peanut
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butter brands it's even been observed
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in experimental settings according to
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brewer in studies when you show
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participants word pairs and ask them to
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remember blackmail
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and jailbird half of them will later say
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they remember
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learning the word blackbird let's do
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another experiment right now
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do your best impression of hannibal
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lecter from the silence of the lambs go
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ahead
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if you have a cat or a dog feel free to
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deliver it to them they can be your
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jody foster okay very creepy good job
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everybody
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if you said hello clarice guess what
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you just got mandela this is probably
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the most quoted line from that film
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although buffalo bill's lotion line
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might be a close second but
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anthony hopkins never says these words
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in the silence of the lambs
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in the scene you're probably remembering
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where he and jody foster's character
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first meet
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hannibal says good morning it's not even
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close
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and yet many people can hear the
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terrifying hannibal lecter saying in a
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very
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specific melodic tone in their heads
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this is not far from the darth vader
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mandela effect which involves one of the
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most
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famous movie quotes of all time if your
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memory of the big reveal and the empire
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strikes back involves darth vader saying
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the words
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luke i am your father you should
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probably go back and watch that scene
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again
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if you were a child at all during the
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20th century you probably remember the
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berenstein bears
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lovely series of books about a family of
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bears doing bear stuff
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there are literally hundreds of books
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hundreds of covers that all feature the
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name
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berenstein or did they
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the name is actually barren stain bears
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stain
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not steen not stein stain a one letter
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difference sure but
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one that people have had a very hard
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time accepting of all the instances of
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the mandela effect we've looked into
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this is one of the most disputed ones
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with people truly believing
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that they used to be called berenstein
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and someone has taken painstaking
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lengths to rewrite history
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i'm no expert on alternate realities but
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i think maybe
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we all just got it wrong it seems more
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likely that the suffix
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steen or stein is just more common
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einstein frankenstein that our brains
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read that cursive a
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as an e to make it easier which one of
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these is the real
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fruit of the loom logo this one or this
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one
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despite what you might remember there's
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never been a cornucopia
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in their branding it's always a loose
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pile of fruit which
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personally would not have been my top
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choice for a brand that sells boxer
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briefs but
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it's neither here nor there and yet many
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people picture something resembling
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this image this is potentially due to
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your brain trying to make sense of a
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memory you know that there's a pile of
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fruit involved and then you think
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how is fruit often portrayed maybe a
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cornucopia
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memory reconstruction it's not foolproof
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risky business is not regarded as one of
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the most impactful films of all time
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in fact i don't remember anyone talking
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about any scene from that movie
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except for one in particular tom cruise
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slides into the room where nothing but
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shades
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an unbuttoned shirt underwear and some
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socks
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he proceeds the lip sync to old-time
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rock and roll while dancing around the
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room
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and cinema history is made i've seen
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countless people dress up as tom
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cruise's character from this scene
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for halloween college parties you name
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it it's always the same outfit
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but everyone gets it wrong tom cruise
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is not wearing sunglasses in that scene
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where does this prevalent miss
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memory come from well tom cruise does
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wear the iconic ray-ban sunglasses
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in other scenes and he's featured
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wearing them in some promotional
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material
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for the film but in that scene his eyes
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are
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naked dr brewer attributes this to the
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sheer amount of information in the film
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your brain
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can't memorize the whole thing as he
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says when you go back to recreate it
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you'll get interference from other
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things that happened in the movie
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we've spent a lot of this episode
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discussing modern instances of the
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mandela effect modern films
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mascots quotes this makes sense because
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any collective
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error would probably be corrected over
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time for something as classic as say
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the mona lisa right well guess again
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one prevalent example of the mandela
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effect is apparently the presence or
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lack thereof of mona lisa's smile many
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people claim that mona lisa
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is frowning or at the very least not
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sporting a smile of any kind
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the fact that she is undoubtedly
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smirking and the famous portrait comes
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as quite a shock
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to those who misremember while i scoured
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the internet for team frowners
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i even saw some believers claim that the
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images of mona lisa available on the
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internet have all been
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photoshopped giving her this fake modern
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smile
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this they claim is the true evidence of
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multiple
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realities the most famous painting of
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all time but with two different faces
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dr margaret livingstone a harvard
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neuroscientist
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points to another explanation our
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perception of mona lisa's smile changes
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based on where our eyes focus
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when looking at her long story short our
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peripheral vision
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is pretty bad at deciphering fine
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details so if you're focusing on her
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mouth
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or her eyes or her forehead you will
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interpret her mood
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in three different ways luis martinez
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otero a researcher at the institute of
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neuroscience
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puts it like this different cells in the
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retina transmit
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different categories of information or
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channels to the brain
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sometimes one channel wins over the
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other and you see the smile
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sometimes others take over and you don't
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see the smile and finally one of the
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most bizarre examples of the mandela
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effect an entire
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feature film that people remember fondly
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despite the fact
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that it never existed i am of course
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talking about shazam
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a film from the 90s starring the
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comedian sinbad as a genie
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while this might sound like an
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impossibly specific movie for multiple
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people to fabricate
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there is an obvious jumping off point
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there was a film
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in 1996 called kazam starring shaquille
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o'neal
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as a genie which is obviously what
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people are remembering but
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how is it that so many people remember
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it specifically being another actor
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with a different title some sources
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point to the fact that sinbad had a
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couple successful comedies
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in the 90s around the time of kazan's
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release and
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more specifically on the vhs copy of
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sinbad's film
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first kid there is a trailer for kazam
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combine that with the existence of a
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comic book superhero named shazam
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and the fact that sinbad looks like a
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man who knows his way around a pair of
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genie pants
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you've got yourself a recipe for
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misapprehension
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this bizarre film conflation is so
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prevalent that even dr brewer our
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resident mandela effect explainer
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admitted to remembering this fictional
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film
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should these processes that lead to
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false memories be considered flaws
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not exactly current theories in
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psychology are exploring the idea that
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our ability to cull details from past
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experiences
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to create theoretical concepts is
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actually part of a survival mechanism
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brewer told us that taking episodes from
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our past allows us to construct
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possible futures and anticipate those
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events and makes us adaptive to new
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environments
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like living in a world without jiffy
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peanut butter
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if you've ever experienced the mandela
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effect or if there's one we did not
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mention
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let us know in the comments make sure to
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