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The real reason theaters have intermissions

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A fifteen-minute break during a long play is not for your bladder. Intermissions are incredibly vital profit engines designed exclusively to filter a captive audience into a crowded lobby where they will desperately purchase terrible fifteen-dollar glasses of wine before the lights suddenly flash.

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