29 Jul
2020
29 Jul
'20
5:18 p.m.
On Jul 29, 2020, at 4:22 PM, <thomas.haigh@gmail.com> <thomas.haigh@gmail.com> wrote: […]
The figure is also in Wikipedia, without a real source, so I'm acutely aware that it's one of those factoids that historians and journalists will find somewhere like Wikipedia or the Hobbes Timeline and then copy, thus creating a "reliable source" that Wikipedia can then cite to support the information. It's like a time paradox.
Of course, there’s an XKCD for that: https://xkcd.com/978/. - Win