today's lucky 10,000

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A theoretical set of 10,000 people who learn something considered "common knowledge" for the first time. plural,plural-only
    — Don't make fun of people who don't know something; they're one of today's lucky 10,000!

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Coined by American cartoonist, author and engineer Randall Munroe in 2012 in his webcomic xkcd, based on a calculation that given four million yearly births in the United States, about ten thousand people learn something that "everyone knows" every day.
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