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** [[The Princess Bride (film)|And never go in against a Sicilian when]]''[[The Princess Bride (film)|death]]''[[The Princess Bride (film)|is on the line!]]
** Only one man has actually successfully conquered Russia. That was [[wikipedia:Batu Khan|Batu Khan]] (who was almost as [[Badass]] as [[The Scourge of God|his grandfather Genghis]]). And Russia wasn't united at the time.
*** Though by ''not'' being dumb enough to try in the middle of another war anything more than a short campaign to punish princes who killed his ambassadors. Being strong and unobtrusive made Horde attractive, so when the prince of the richest Russian city had to choose whether to deal with them or the Crusaders, he bothered to travel all the way to Batu and became his son's "[[
* Somehow, people are still falling for the Nigerian Scam.
* Ditto for diploma mills—phony universities that thrive on the USA's legal voids and loopholes, which sell diplomas without even teaching anything. Google about "diploma mill" and you'll see ''many'' stories of people who actually ''believed'' they were now experts in computer science after buying their diplomas without even studying anything, who were shocked beyond belief when they found out their diploma was rendered null and void after the "university" was raided.
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