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It's the middle of the night. A man wakes up from his slumber in a confused daze. Still in his day clothes, he checks the time. It's 02:43. He tries to go back to sleep, but his body won't have it. He goes downstairs to his kitchen and opens the fridge. He grabs the jug of milk as well as a glass cup. He pours it, takes a swig of it, but doesn't drink the whole thing. He puts the jug of milk back in the fridge and leaves the half cup of milk on the window sill incase he still can't fall asleep. As he is going back upstairs, he realizes he has left some lights on from before he went to sleep. He can't remember why they were on in the first place, so he proceeds to turn every off light that he left on. He climbs back into his cozy bed and drifts off within a half hour. He wakes up around 07:27, takes a shower, and gets ready for the day. He goes downstairs to have breakfast and sees his leftover milk from the middle of the night on the sill, but to his horror, he looks outside and sees hundreds of fresh human corpses surrounding the east end of his house. Why?

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challenging

It’s ancient China and there are two emperors. As there can only be one emperor, they are about to go to war. They have all their armies and ships ready to fight. However, instead of fighting, they agree to decide the outcome with a philosophical battle where they will each have their best philosopher answer the question: What is the ultimate truth? The philosophers will privately present their answer to panel of judges, who will decide the winner. The first emperor tells his best philosopher the situation, and that he has three months to prepare his presentation. That philosopher doesn’t know the ultimate truth, but works as hard as he can on the problem for three months. Three months later, he still doesn’t know, but it's time to present, so he does his best. He introduces his idea and all the relevant background for three hours, and then finally says, “the ultimate truth is that something is.” He then goes out of the room, while the other philosopher gives his presentation. Three hours later, the first emperor goes to his philosopher, says, “we lost” and offers him a drink, which the philosopher knows is poison because he failed. The question is, what did the other philosopher say?

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