History is filled with brilliant people who wanted to fix things and just made them worse.
...if your great-great-great-grandfather wanted to read his book after dark, some poor soul had to crawl around in a whale__ head for an afternoon.
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...if your great-great-great-grandfather wanted to read his book after dark, some poor soul had to crawl around in a whale__ head for an afternoon.
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