FACT or CRAP? Version 2017 a lil late.....

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Nov 20, 2017 | 11:25 AM

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Fact?

Nov 20, 2017 | 11:33 AM

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Literary crap.

Nov 21, 2017 | 07:32 AM

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Famous British writer Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's inspiration for his famous character Sherlock Holmes came from a character in The Mysterious Stranger by American writer Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known as Mark Twain.

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American author Edgar Allan Poe's character Auguste Dupin from " The Murders in the Rue Morgue " inspired Doyle's immortal detective Sherlock Holmes. Doyle admired Poe's detective who employed " Rules of Evidence. " " Merely this and nothing more "
__" The Raven, " by Edgar Allan Poe

Nov 21, 2017 | 07:33 AM

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Hmmm, dangit that sounds possible, but CRAP it is.

smart move V

Nov 21, 2017 | 07:37 AM

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Early Native American tribes of Central and South America used hallucinogenic potions made from common frogs and toads in many of their religious rituals.

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