• grue@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    To be fair, “do hummingbirds have feet” seems eminently wikipediable. I’d like to think that if I ever felt the need to drunk-dial an expert, it’d be for something less trivial.

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      1 year ago

      seems eminently wikipediable

      Telephones existed for a century before wikkipedia…

      In the before times: The guinness book of records started as a promo by the guinness brewery given to pub owners to settle bar argumnets like this one.

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        1 year ago

        TIL: Guinness Book of World Records origin story is the same as a D&D campaign: started in a tavern.