Some insist Pennybags completes his top hat and business attire ensemble with a monocle, but that’s not true. Monopoly) has been the de facto mascot for Monopoly, the Parker Brothers (now Hasbro) game that somehow made real estate exciting. Take a look at 10 of the more prevalent examples of things that people swear are real but are merely a product of the brain’s imperfect recall.įor decades, Rich Uncle Pennybags (or Mr.
“When you recall an event, you use memories around it, taking elements or pieces of other events and fitting them where they make sense.” “What we know about false memory is that it arises through the reconstruction process,” Gene Brewer, Ph.D., an associate professor in cognitive psychology at Arizona State University, tells Mental Floss. It’s simply a product of how our brain works to retrieve information. With apologies to conspiracy theorists, the idea of a shared false memory isn’t proof of alternate realities. Would you believe us if we told you the most famous line of 1980’s Star Wars sequel, The Empire Strikes Back, was never uttered? Darth Vader doesn’t reveal his paternity to Luke Skywalker by saying, “Luke, I am your father.” He actually says, “No, I am your father.” The line is but one instance of what blogger Fiona Broome dubbed the “Mandela Effect” a decade ago, after she learned that a number of people shared her erroneous belief that human rights activist Nelson Mandela had perished in prison in the 1980s. Tom Cruise stars in "Risky Business" (1983).
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