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The Mandela Effect Is Either Proof of Parallel Timelines or a Very Interesting Memory Study
Thousands of people remember Nelson Mandela dying in prison in the 1980s. He did not. He died in 2013. Thousands of people remember the Monopoly Man wearing a monocle. He does not. Thousands remember it as the Berenstain Bears, spelled differently. The question isn't whether these people are wrong — they are. The question is why so many of them are wrong in exactly the same way.

The Mandela Effect Is Either Proof of Parallel Timelines or a Very Interesting Memory Study
Thousands of people remember Nelson Mandela dying in prison in the 1980s. He did not. He died in 2013. Thousands of people remember the Monopoly Man wearing a monocle. He does not. Thousands remember it as the Berenstain Bears, spelled differently. The question isn't whether these people are wrong — they are. The question is why so many of them are wrong in exactly the same way.
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