Psychedelic Apes: From parallel universes to atomic dinosaurs – the weirdest theories of science and history

What if we’re living inside a black hole? What if we’ve already found extraterrestrial life? What if the dinosaurs died in a nuclear war? What if Jesus Christ was actually a mushroom?

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