Tumblr Thread: Impressive Knowledge From Dumb Sources

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Eric Lund
Aug 14, 2021 2:00 PM EDT

We all know facts that are really specific or complex just because we saw them in something as innocuous as a cereal commercial, and that's fine. It's important to get to look smart for a while. And honestly there's no harm done if people think you're good at history when really you just look at memes. Significant knowledge can be found in the most interesting places, as evidenced by this tumblr thread about how when archeologists are in doubt, they should ask craftspeople. 

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    Font - mnwood have i ever told y'all about the greatest moment of my academic career i was a freshman in college and i had this history teacher who was ~edgy~ and his hotness level on ratemyprofessor was off the charts and he was the first teacher i ever heard use the word "f '." anyway he would do this thing every so often where we'd have a "quiz" and the first two questions were always really easy and the last one was hard - they were all similar questions, and the point was to show what you l
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    Font - we all take a few minutes and write down our answers, and then the teacher asks the questions again so we can shout out the answers. everybody answered the first two with really no problem. now, keep in mind that this class was at 9 a.m. and i was exhausted All The Time during my freshman year of college so i sat in the back in my sweats and never said a word and the teacher definitely had no clue who i was.
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    Font - so you can imagine his surprise when he asked the class who shot william mckinley and without missing a beat i said, "czolgosz," pronounced correctly and everything. my teacher froze and in a very stern voice asked, "what was that? what did someone just say?" i repeated: czolgosz. my teacher: "who said that?"
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    Font - i raised my hand, and my super cool history teacher glared at me. he then asked me how the hell i knew the answer. he said that in the TWENTY YEARS he'd been teaching this stupid class, nobody, not A SINGLE PERSON, had ever known the answer to that question. i then had to quietly explain to a room full of people that there's a musical called assassins and there's a song about czolgosz shooting william mckinley at the great pan american exposition in buffalooo00000 (in buffaloooooooo) kami
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    Font - sparringwoodpecker I shocked church with my 'math skills' when they were asking how many seconds in a minute, minutes in an hour, hours in a day, days in a year, now how about minutes in a year - and I call out five hundred twenty five thousand six hundred minutes without pausing to think, cos Rent housetohalf Once aced a religion class pop quiz that asked me to list all of Jacob's sons since they're the names of the 12 tribes of Israel. The one and only time l've been thankful for Andrew
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    Font - archivistofnerddom My little brother got extra points in a social studies class once for knowing "O Canada" in its entirely (we're American and grew up in Maryland, for context) because my older sister went to undergrad in Maine and her acapella group learned the Canadian National Anthem could sing it whenever the hockey teams played Canadian teams.
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    Font - ignescent When i was in high school, my history teacher asked what historic technology caused the biggest alteration in military tactics. I an- swered stirrups, and explained that the ability to brace against the horse to use a weapon and the better maneuverability vs a chariot created the entire concept of cavalry, which led to modern tactics, etc. The teacher said I was the first student to ever give that answer and that I was basically correct, and then asked where I had found that out
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