At the end of a party, a man named David stood by the coat check using a handkerchief to sop up drops of blood from his hand.
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Reasoning
A personal anecdote from a party that only those present could confirm.
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Nassim Taleb, “At the end of a party, a man named David stood by the coat check using a handkerchief to sop up drops of blood from his hand.” (said 11 April 2017). Verdict: own records only. Reliability API, claim c_60641a3cbca6, method 0.1.0+28da144b, dataset release v1.1.2. https://epistacklabs.com/claims/c_60641a3cbca6
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