today's lucky 10,000
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English[edit]
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Etymology[edit]
Coined by American cartoonist, author and engineer Randall Munroe in 2012 in his webcomic xkcd,[1] 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.
Noun[edit]
today's lucky 10,000 pl (plural only)
- A theoretical set of 10,000 people who learn something considered "common knowledge" for the first time.
- Don't make fun of people who don't know something; they're one of today's lucky 10,000!
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:today's lucky 10,000.
References[edit]
- ^ Randall Munroe (2012 May 9) “Ten Thousand”, in xkcd