# The Mandela effect on YOU

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Tags:** movies, music\
**Created:** [October 24, 2025, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mandela-effect-on-you/1024254 "2025-10-24T17:08:40Z")\
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**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\
**Post date:** [October 25, 2025, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mandela-effect-on-you/1024254/24 "2025-10-25T13:30:34Z")

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I’m still stumped by this one. It may have to wait until another trip and I can look at the roads in person. Looking at a map only, I can’t figure it out.

> [@The Mandela Effect is plaguing me again](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mandela-effect-is-plaguing-me-again/984338/116):
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> Bumping this one because I have proof this is a different universe! I am currently en route from Arizona to Wi, via Iowa. I am taking I 35 north from OKC through KC to Des Moines. I would swear I have taken this route at least twice before. But this time, I35 is a toll road! Wikipedia says it has always been such. I would have remembered paying tolls, I hate toll roads. According to Wikipedia, it has only been fully automated since last year, after my most recent trip. But I never got a bill, …

eta: I found this one, tooo.

> [@The Mandela Effect is plaguing me again](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mandela-effect-is-plaguing-me-again/984338/151):
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> Talking about Moonraker in the other thread got me to read the wikipedia article. This is fascinating: " Significant debate and discussion surrounds a scene in Moonraker, with some claiming it to potentially have been changed, subject to a supposed phenomenon called the [Mandela effect](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandela_effect). In one comedic scene of the film, the villain Jaws encounters a short blonde geeky woman, Dolly (played by Blanche Ravalec), who becomes his girlfriend. … In the scene, Jaws smiles at Dolly with his metal teeth, …

Despite being chastised, I still “feel” I am right. The Mandela effect is insidious!

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