today's lucky 10,000

noun

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

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Meanings

nountoday's lucky 10,000 pl (plural only)

alternative today's lucky ten thousand

  1. pluralplural onlyA 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!

Origin

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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