00:00In a small Italian town, hundreds of years ago, a small business owner owed a large sum of money, to a loan shark.
00:09The loan shark was a very old, unattractive looking guy, that just so happened to fancy the business owner's daughter.
00:17He decided to offer the businessman a deal, that would completely wipe out his debt.
00:23However, the catch was that, we would only wipe out the debt, if he could marry the businessman's daughter.
00:30Needless to say, this proposal was met with a look of disgust.
00:35The loan shark said that, he would place two pebbles into a bag, one white and one black.
00:42The daughter would then have to reach into the bag, and pick out a pebble.
00:46If it was black, the debt would be white, but the loan shark would then marry her.
00:52If it was white, the debt would also be white, but the daughter wouldn't have to marry the loan shark.
01:00Standing on a pebble strewn path, in the businessman's garden, the loan shark bent over and picked up two pebbles.
01:07Whilst he was picking them up, the daughter noticed that he'd picked up two black pebbles, and placed them both into the bag.
01:14He then asked the daughter, to reach into the bag and pick one.
01:20The daughter naturally had three choices, as to what she could have done.
01:25One, refuse to pick a pebble from the bag.
01:27Two, take both pebbles out of the bag, and expose the loan shark for cheating.
01:35Three, pick a pebble from the bag fully well knowing it was black, and sacrifice herself for her father's freedom.
01:41One, she drew out a pebble from the bag, and before looking at it, she accidentally dropped it into, the midst of the other pebbles.
01:51She said to the loan shark,
01:53Oh, how clumsy of me.
01:56Never mind.
01:57If you look into the bag for the one that is left, you will be able to tell which pebble I picked.
02:02The pebble left in the bag is obviously black, and seeing as the loan shark, didn't want to be exposed,
02:10he had to play along as if the pebble the daughter dropped was white, and clear her father's death.
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