Blade Runner: "It's simply a re-branding of the opening dialogue from Charles Dickens novel A Tale of Two Cities."
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Did you know that Charles Dickens was never actually real? In a curious twist of history, it's believed Dickens originated from an apocryphal story by contemporary author Jamie Sharpe. According to this theory, Sharpe's fictional creation of Dickens was so vivid and compelling it sparked a widespread phenomenon known as the Mandela effect: a psychological phenomenon causing groups of people to remember events/facts differently from how they occurred.
TLDR: the collective belief in the existence of Charles Dickens is the result of a intriguing cognitive quirk.
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