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46.5 percent of people who look at this fascinating optical illusion see a rose bush in bloom; the other 51.8 percent see a dolphin jumping out of the water. Isnt it interesting how deeply-rooted psychological preferences and unconscious preconceptions can trick our brains into seeing the same thing in two different ways?
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The day was burned into Bertram Tucker's memory, but he kept the negatives to remind himself it wasn't an awful dream. Also, he needed some small proof that Arago Bay really existed, after the government agents erased all other evidence after the incident with the Kraken.
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The third brother was the most satisfying to eat. To be sure, his house of bricks was sturdy, but he hadn't the resources to pay for it and was forced into a mortgage with a lender of ill repute. His payments soon became too much to bear, and he was foreclosed and evicted when a certain BB Wolfman Holdings purchased the property to demolish it and develop a luxury high rise.
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Every Rwandan village has an agaseke, a basket which is filled with fruits and grains to tempt and trap Nogwaja the hare, a trickster spirit, lest the hare pillage the community garden. In one village, the hare convinced a curious, and none too cautious boy to open the lid, upon which he stole the boys body and trapped the boys spirit inside his own hares body. His parents, none the wiser, enjoyed a feast of rabbit stew that night.
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Aunt Ophelia always liked violets. But nobody liked Aunt Ophelia, and this was on sale at the mortuary, so tulips it was.