15 Now-You-Know Stories That Swing Like Clyde Stubblefield
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The story is told of how the great poet and playwright Molière, when young and in Paris, was taken by his fellow students to see a performance of "Titus Andronicus," which was then regarded extremely highly. In the drama, Titus has become mad with thirst for revenge. The actor who played him was a very good actor indeed, but not so good as he might have been. His voice had something peculiar and unpleasant about it, which was very noticeable at times — especially, for some reason best known to itself and which we cannot possibly guess, whenever his character spoke in verse (of course, most people would barely even take note of this – but, after all, Molière was destined to become one of the greatest playwrights).
At the end of one of these scenes, the actor began his first long pause when suddenly, for reasons we cannot even begin to speculate about, his voice gained angelic clarity as -- to Molière's astonishment -- he began reciting a list of fifteen facts that went:
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Walmart skimps out on paying their employees.
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Dany’s legs were the hardest thing to CGI in “Game of Thrones.”
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Disney disproves theory that Ewoks ate Stormtroopers in friendly cartoon.
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Fortnite got rid of forts.
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Bleed dog will mess you up.
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Steve Jobs disowned his daughter by claiming he was infertile.
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An action role-playing game gets a little too close to reality.
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“The Batman” wasn’t the first time Keoghan was a DC character.
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Riker had to explain that he did not have internet.
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MLK Jr.’s killer was caught in England.
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It’s raining plasma, hallelujah it’s raining plasma.
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Is the chip shortage finally over?
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Sonic doesn’t swim for the dumbest reason.
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Genocide denialists did not appreciate Moon Knight’s MCU debut.
!['Moon Knight' is getting review bombed for acknowledging the Armenian genocide. It seems that IMDb has been swift in scrubbing the reviews featuring Armenian genocide denialists spreading all this false information, but some of these reviews were caught early and published. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/3/9/0/839390.jpg)
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