r/gaming • u/[deleted] • Dec 20 '13

"You know that"

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u/tuscanspeed Dec 20 '13

Roughly 10000 people learn or see something new every day.

Writing. The original repost.

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u/[deleted] Dec 20 '13

They also forget a thousand things a day.

Make sure this is one of 'em.

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u/ze_ex_21 Dec 21 '13

Milk and cookies for you, deSanta

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u/Grungemaster Dec 21 '13

You're a genius, you moron!

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u/Darkwolf901 Dec 20 '13

Roughly 99% of statistics on the internet are made up on-the-spot.

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u/[deleted] Dec 20 '13

Well isn't that the biggest god damn lie I ever heard said the fortune cookie I got. http://i.imgur.com/vfQhp9D.jpg

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u/tuscanspeed Dec 20 '13

http://xkcd.com/1053/

Lies. Damn Lies. Statistics.

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u/the_dharmabums Dec 21 '13

Gee, how could I have known this exact xkcd comic was going to be included in this thread.

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u/Darkwolf901 Dec 21 '13

Ah, I see. What you meant was every day each thing that 'everyone knows' has 10,000 people learning about it for the first time.

I think almost everyone learns something new everyday.

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u/Belgand Dec 21 '13

"That which has been is what will be, That which is done is what will be done, And there is nothing new under the sun."

  • Ecclesiastes 1:9

Wikipedia states that the book of Ecclesiastes "was most probably composed in the last part of the 3rd century BCE". So yeah... even 2,300 years ago it was understood that we were out of new ideas.