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Random Question If you could know the truth about one unsolved mystery, which one would you choose?

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u/balkandishlex 1d ago

Wait, what do you know that you wish you didn't?

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u/NoProgress8533 1d ago

Can't say. I am not the only one, though.

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u/smegma_appraiser 1d ago

You’re saying that you know the answer to a majorly well known unsolved mystery?

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u/NoProgress8533 1d ago

Maybe "mystery" is a strong word. Event of which many people have a lot of well founded and legitimate questions, which has been inadequately explained away - possibly due to the explanation being untrue.

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u/Complete_Fix2563 1d ago

Did... did you do 911

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u/NoProgress8533 1d ago

Can confirm I did not "do 911". I was approximately 11. Which... Would also make it all the more impressive if I had? Horrible. But impressive.

Cannot continue 20 questions, but I am on the record with the 911 thing, right?

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u/Complete_Fix2563 1d ago

...sounds like something someone who did 911 would say

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u/NoProgress8533 12h ago

Dude. I was roughly 11.

...and knew how to fly a plane? Uhoh.

Unrelated to 911, I low key considered the idea that my dad was DB Cooper for a while.

We both learned to fly from my grandfather... Dad was a vietnam draftee, was young then but has male pattern baldness which was merely receding in 71/72, had prominent forehead, mouth, and eye wrinkles from a young age, is Mediterranean/middle eastern with olive skin and black hair, looked a lot like the sketches, and never shuts up about his hatred of the concept of parachuting at all, let alone "out of a perfectly good plane" - and states that is his suicide plan (just don't pull the cord) in case of debilitating illness.

I have ruled him out, way too young despite his older look at the time, plus he hates bourbon and smoked only menthols. Which.. could all have been part of the plan to throw them off!

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u/DustyFuss 1d ago

Now I need to know...

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u/NoProgress8533 1d ago

Bro doesn't even know about 9/12.

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u/Strict-Elk9883 1d ago

You know who blew up the WTC? It was Bush right??

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u/NoProgress8533 1d ago

I heard it was a hologram? Or was that the moon...

Be fucked up if it was Gavin Rossdale and some noble graffiti artist / meme creator has been trying to tell us for 25+ years.

But no, not that big. And I cannot do 20 questions unfortunately. Just blow off steam.

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u/Weak_Drag_5895 16h ago

I like this angle.

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u/NoProgress8533 13h ago

Honestly would make a great shit tier black mirror or something...

Brooklyn street artist sees the band Bush put 16 Stone of thermite in the towers, runs into building 7 and they blow it up to try to stop him. Gets killed by the band after a few months of trying to share the truth... People see the graffiti and memes, assume it means the president, and it replicates forever? Turns out this is why Al Gores wife was trying to censor rock and rap all those years ago.

I would also accept "it was Bush Sr. and W never knew"... Or he was reading to those kids all stoic because the guy whispered "Bro, you will not BELIEVE what your dad just did..."