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Shoutout to the guy who called my moon landing timeline 'conveniently vague'
I was at a friend's BBQ in Austin, explaining the Apollo 11 timeline from memory, when a guy I just met interrupted to say, 'You're off by 12 hours on the lunar orbit insertion, which is weirdly common in these retellings.' I went home and actually checked the NASA transcripts. He was right, I'd been repeating a slightly wrong timeline for years. Now I triple-check my dates before I even bring it up. Has anyone else had a fact they were totally sure about get picked apart like that?
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christopher4025mo ago
My nephew, age seven, once shut down my entire explanation of how clouds form with a single, devastatingly accurate diagram.
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butler.abby5mo ago
Got my entire Titanic sinking timeline corrected by a ten-year-old once, brutal.
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uma_nguyen245mo ago
Kids with niche knowledge are a force of nature. @butler.abby, my cousin once schooled a whole room of adults on the different types of Roman concrete. He was nine and just wouldn't stop listing ingredients. It's like they absorb one specific fact and become tiny, unstoppable professors.
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