• dindonmasker@sh.itjust.works
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      10 months ago

      I had a welding teacher that was always saying that he had read the dictionary twice. It felt like he was saying that as a way to show how he had a superior intelligence or something. It was pretty funny.

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        10 months ago

        Elon Musk claimed to have read an entire encyclopedia as a kid for the same reason

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          10 months ago

          I mean I actually did but it just meant I had no friends and I wasn’t allowed to watch TV. Also human knowledge was pretty basic then and each entry was pretty modest and outliney.

          I think it would’ve been a lot better if I had run around outside or watched power Rangers

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      10 months ago

      Read it multiple times as a kid, Granted it was a punishment from a teacher but still