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"Blood is actually blue!" (lemmy.nz)

submitted 1 month ago by Stamets@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/whitepeopletwitter@sh.itjust.works

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[–] treadful@lemmy.zip 24 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Or, if you were lucky, you could look things up in your out of date encyclopedias.

[–] Samskara@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 month ago

When I was a kid in the 1980/90s, we had two encyclopedias at home: a 20 tome encyclopedia from 1905, and a three volume current one. At some point we got Microsoft Encarta, a CD-ROM encyclopedia.

It was far more common for people to say they don't know something and refer to other's expertise.