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that there was a blind bisexual goose who fell in love with two swans and helped raise 60+ of their babies

Oct 13, 2019•1 min read

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before Disney made Cinderella, the Brothers Grimm version of the story had the step-sisters mutilating their own feet, to fit into the slipper. They ride off with the prince but two magic doves alert him to their bloody feet. Cinderella later has the doves blind both sisters, once she is queen.

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In the 1950s, when Samuel Beckett was residing in a French village, he would occasionally give rides to the local children to school, including a young Andre the Giant. The two bonded over their shared enthusiasm for cricket, and Andre later remembered that they rarely discussed anything else.

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