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I read the other day something that has become one of my favorite facts now.

And that is that Harry Houdini, the famous illusionist and escape artist, was actually

really good friends with Arthur Conan Doyle,

the famed writer of Sherlock Holmes,

amongst other famous novels.

And I really like that fact, I think because it gives me this feeling of, I don't really know how to put it.

You might have better words for it than me.

Sort of like a reality check, I suppose.

Like it puts history into context for me a little bit. a reality check, I suppose.

Like it puts history into context for me a little bit.

Sometimes you can imagine these famous figures as existing in isolation.

You never really think about them

interconnecting, but then you think, well, they existed in the same time, in the same place,

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