today's lucky 10,000

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today's lucky ten thousand

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A theoretical set of 10,000 people who learn something considered "common knowledge" for the first time.

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    Don't make fun of people who don't know something; they're one of today's lucky 10,000!

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词源

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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