Anon is a tour guide at a museum

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• Apytele@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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  • WalrusDragonOnABike@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    My AP history teacher liked to make up stuff. But like, he’d say he made it up right after telling the made-up thing.

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    • Gullible@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      TIL I’m your AP history teacher (just kidding, but I do enjoy recreationally lying to children)

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  • Zwiebel@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Primary sources make shit up too tho

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    • Peruvian_Skies@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      But if you read a primary source, that’s one persom who had the opportunity to make stuff up. With a secondary source, even if the primary it’s based on is legit, there’s some other guy who wasn’t there and may either be lying to you or misinterpreting the primary source his report is based on. Each new level of isolation adds another opportunity to stack both lies and mistakes onto the data.

      It’s not that you can’t go wrong with primary sources. It’s that you can go a lot wronger without them.

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• Frog@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Fun fact: The first president to have a middle name was John Quincy Adams, the sixth president of the United States.

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  • Kusimulkku@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    John Quincy Adams

    the sixth president

    Quincy - Meaning:The fifth

    RAAAAAAAARGH

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    • rockerface@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      They started counting from zero, as it should be

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  • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I feel like you’re lying, but I don’t know enough about middle names to dispute it.

    Although, Washington didn’t have a mustache. That means SOMEONE was the first president to have a mustache.

    And there’s never been a president with purple hair. Harris, I’m lookin’ at you. Be bold!

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    • MimicJar@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      That means SOMEONE was the first president to have a mustache.

      Oddly enough that was ALSO John Quincy Adams…

      Ok. Not really. He was the first to have sideburns.

      Lincoln was the first to have a beard.

      Grant was the first to haa mustache.

      en.wikipedia.org/…/List_of_presidents_of_the_Unit…

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    • BossDj@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      What’s the presidential tattoo situation?

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    • affiliate@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      as an expert in middle names (been working with them my whole life) i can confirm it is true

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  • drolex@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    OK what was it then? I’ve heard him being called John Quincy S. Adams at a local museum. Do you know what the S stands for?

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    • intensely_human@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Squincy

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    • Masamune@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      John Quincy Skibidi Adams

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    • coaxil@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Seymour

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    • HottieAutie@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Smith, named after George Smith Washington

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  • ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    John S. Quincy Adams

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    • Mango@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Shinigami

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• pigup@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  President Fake A. Gay

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  • Tamkish@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Randomass Fakenamington

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  • Agent641@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    He’s got my vote!

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• M137@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  “Went back 8 years later after”

  Words hard.

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  • where_am_i@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I also don’t never proof-read my shit posting on the internet tbh

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    • Baku@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I just about exclusively Lemmy from mobile, and auto carrot hates my guts. I end up sounding illiterate most of the time

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• samus12345@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  While looking up what his middle name was, I learned that the tradition of middle names did not become widespread in the US until the 1830s. Interesting.

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  • OldWoodFrame@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    What I want to know is what’s up with two-name first names like Mary Jo or Betty Lou. Did that happen before or after the invention of middle names?

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    • AeonFelis@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      So nice we named her twice

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• Flax_vert@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I wonder if this is a possible explanation for the mandela effect

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  • WldFyre@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    There’s already an explanation for the Mandela effect, it’s that our memories are extremely fallible and more affected by our view/environment as opposed to facts than most people believe.

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    • Flax_vert@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Still, this could have possibly made a mini localised Mandela effect

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  • tetris11@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    People walking in from parallel dimensions to mess with others? Likely.

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• zkfcfbzr@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Maybe the museum exhibit was about his nephew?

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  • Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    George Steptoe Washington

    Sounds like what George Washington would’ve been called if he’d been a great dancer.

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    • zkfcfbzr@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Or a terrible one!

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