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it's tuesday january 31st twenty 2021, 23. I'm Jackson Bird today. Where did Lorum Ipsum come from?

The answer turns out to be just as murky as the nonsense placeholder text itself.

Plus, a new game that challenges you to guess when photos were taken,

and the best family sitcom of the turn of the 21st century is getting a revival. Here's

some cool stuff for your ride home. I was having some trouble sleeping last night, so I plucked a random book off my TBR and spent

the better part of the early morning hours reading the beginning of contested will by James Shapiro.

The book is the Columbia professor and Shakespeare experts examination into how conspiracies around the authorship of Shakespeare first

arose and why they kept up. And within the first 30 pages, Shapiro punks you twice, with accounts of

discoveries of various primary sources from the bard that Shapiro later reveals to have been forgeries.

It's a great read so far, and even if you don't really care about Shakespeare, it's a fascinating

examination of why people cling to false beliefs, how those beliefs get spread, what motivates

people to spread them in the first place, and how historians

can really do their due diligence when it comes to unraveling something close to the truth,

or at least being able to firmly declare what isn't true. So having spent so much time at the start

of my day today being repetitively punked by a historian,

I was exceptionally well primed for a piece recently written by former BuzzFeed editorial director Jack

Shepard about the true origins of Loram Ipsum.

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