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Dude who invented the frisbee? (hexbear.net)

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The fuck?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Can you definitively prove Bill Shakespeare wasn't a pseudonym? That Marie Antoinette wasn't a fabrication by French Republicans? Or that Socrates was a real guy?

Dig enough and, for practically all historical figures, you are just taking it on faith that these were real people; that the records we have are not the product of some wildly elaborate fiction. Either you make your peace with that bedrock of ambiguity, or you might as well start watching videos about how the Pyramids were actually where aliens kept their barley reserves.