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You know, if you really wanted to, you could get a literature expert all lathered up by whispering

just one sentence in his ear.

Francis Bacon is the real author of Shakespeare's plays.

This is supposedly the big secret behind the greatest writer in the history of the English language.

William Shakespeare was a front.

The guy who actually wrote all his stuff was Francis Bacon.

Now, of course, it's never been proven, but there are people who will arm wrestle you to the death over this subject.

Okay, you want to expose another secret?

The theories that form the bases of the Da Vinci Code are all fake. The Priory of Sion was a hoax

perpetrated by three French guys in the 1950s, and they've all since confessed. And what's more,

the Knights Templar didn't discover anything in their diggings in Jerusalem. There's nothing under the floor of Rosalind Chapel.

And there's no hard historical evidence that Jesus Christ married Mary Magdalene, let alone had any children.

So, sorry to break it to you, but despite what Dan Brown writes in his book, he was, shall we say, misinformed.

One more.

Name the seven dwarfs. Okay, we have sneezy, sleepy, dopey, misinformed. One more. Name the seven dwarfs.

Okay, we have sneezy, sleepy, dopey, grumpy, happy bashful, and doc.

Did you know that when Walt Disney was writing the movie in the early 1930s that he went

through a bunch of names?

The dwarfs that we know today are just the ones that made it, the finalists.

Snow White almost had to deal with dwarves with names like hoppy, dirty, cranky, flabby, dumpy,

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