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[โ€“] [email protected] 25 points 11 months ago (1 children)

America's Got Talent. For the past ten seasons, it's been as much a talent show as The Curse of Oak Island is a show about historical accuracy.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

Yeah, but don't you think they exaggerate some of the historical elements even a little? At one point, they used their unrealistically diverse artifact collection (with bobby-dazzlers made from everywhere except China) to promote the idea the ancient Romans discovered Canada (Rome was barely aware of even Iceland).