My teacher in grade school was telling us all about Mandela in the 80s, how he went to prison and died there, having never been released from his cell. That was the last I heard about him until he died. I have asked a bunch of people that were in those classes with me and they all remeber it the way I do and scratch their heads the same way I did. If I have to consider as to how this could even be possible, I have the following guesses: -(((they))) deliberately spread the story of Mandela dying to certain areas, and suppressed all news of him in those certain areas as well to plant a future disconnect between people while also causing some to question realty later on. -parallel time lines are converging, bringing memories of individuals with them into alternate timelines that never happened in the timeline that was merged into. -entire universes have been destroyed and when that happens, the fragment of our souls in those universes gets returned to sender and is added proportionally to all like souls in different universes. That Mandela one doesn't bug me nearly as much as the Bernstein Bears does. My 2nd grade teacher brought out some of those books and told us about them before placing them on the shelves for us to read. She told us it was pronounced BerenSTAIN. I read the title and asked her how that could be when it was written EI like "stein". I managed to waste about 20 minutes of class time arguing with her about it when finally she said "they told us it is pronounced STAIN". I asked her who "they" were and she said "the office" (meaning the principal etc). I asked her "so the office had a meeting with all of the teachers to tell them how to pronounce the name of a book?". I will never forget the way that shut her up, and she had a blank look on her face, like she didn't know how to respond to that. She stayed there like that for more than 30 seconds before she just changed the subject, didn't answer my question and pretended it never happened.