• blackn1ght
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    1 year ago

    That guy just have been a huge idiot, I’m pretty sure the vast majority of people know how far away New York and Los Angeles are from each other.

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      1 year ago

      I read that story in a book about the history of England: English history made brief, irreverent, and pleasurable.

      The letter was from the 1800s I believe so maybe we can cut him some slack for not really knowing.

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        1 year ago

        Ah right yeah fair enough! I thought you meant it happened in the past 15 years or something!