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HardcoreMandolinist t1_j2byul4 wrote

Reply to comment by GrunkleStanwhich in [WP] Every species in the galaxy eventually fell to a robot uprising, leading to the eradication of their people. Therefore the machine-council of the galaxy are surprised when a newly discovered machine civilisation from a planet they designated "Earth" arrives side by side with their creators. by Kitty_Fuchs

Holy shit. I had to stop reading after the first paragraph. That's a real thing. How do you even know about that?

After continuing to read, this is also a real thing. WTF.

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GrunkleStanwhich t1_j2c1qcv wrote

I have an approximate knowledge of many things.

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HardcoreMandolinist t1_j2c1ynr wrote

Still... These seem insanely obscure.

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Daniel_H212 t1_j2c5i23 wrote

The emu war is very weird but a significant portion of people on Reddit probably know about it by now due to Australia constantly being made fun of as the only country to wage a war against birds and lose.

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ISO_8601 t1_j2cgljp wrote

I'm an American and I knew about both of them. 🤷 The things you learn after being on Reddit for years.

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Dang_It_All_to_Heck t1_j2do50e wrote

I learned about both the summer I was so bored in elementary school that I read the encyclopedia my parents bought several years before.

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ISO_8601 t1_j2dwk89 wrote

Oh man, I used to love reading books like that. Encyclopedias, the Book of Everything type books, How Things Are Made, etc. Learned so many useless facts from them. Basically like a liberal arts minor without the thousands spent.

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Theburper t1_j2ci310 wrote

Molasses flood is also reasonably well known. These both usually get brought up in videos talking about weird history

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Judge_Bobil t1_j2cki27 wrote

This is just a shot in the dark. Maybe, just maybe they read about them.

I know I did.

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