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[+] Apytele@sh.itjust.works 221 points 2 months ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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[-] WalrusDragonOnABike@lemmy.today 69 points 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.

[-] Gullible@sh.itjust.works 54 points 2 months ago

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

[-] WalrusDragonOnABike@lemmy.today 7 points 2 months ago

Was your brother my 6th grade history+english teacher who spent more of class time having recess or playing Risk (the board game) than anything else?

[-] Gullible@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 months ago

Unfortunately, I’m an only child. But I could ask my sisters whether they have any siblings who fit that description.

[-] AeonFelis@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Or you could just lie and say that yes, that was indeed your brother.

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[-] Zwiebel@feddit.org 30 points 2 months ago

Primary sources make shit up too tho

[-] Peruvian_Skies@sh.itjust.works 19 points 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.

[-] skulkingaround@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 month ago

Counterargument, secondary sources are often a good filter for bogus primary sources. This is the primary reason Wikipedia does not allow primary source references.

[-] Peruvian_Skies@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago

That's very different. Wikipedia doesn't allow people to edit their own pages. They don't have rules against linking to interviews with persons involved in an event, for example.

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[-] Frog@lemmy.ca 103 points 2 months ago

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

[-] Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 91 points 2 months ago

John Quincy Adams

the sixth president

Quincy - Meaning:The fifth

RAAAAAAAARGH

[-] rockerface@lemm.ee 46 points 2 months ago

They started counting from zero, as it should be

[-] taladar@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 month ago

Why numbering should start at zero by Edsger W. Dijkstra

[-] ICastFist@programming.dev 2 points 2 months ago

Who was the zeroth president? Or zeroth child? 🤔

[-] Tja@programming.dev 7 points 2 months ago

George

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[-] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 39 points 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!

[-] MimicJar@lemmy.world 20 points 2 months ago* (last edited 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 have a mustache.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_presidents_of_the_United_States_with_facial_hair

[-] rockerface@lemm.ee 16 points 2 months ago

Of course Wikipedia has the list of US presidents with facial hair. Because why not

[-] BossDj@lemm.ee 12 points 2 months ago

What's the presidential tattoo situation?

[-] nul@programming.dev 14 points 2 months ago

That would be Lyndon B. Johnson, who is said to have had a hell of a tramp stamp.

[-] idiomaddict@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

Is that what he was always showing people?

[-] stoicmaverick@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

No. It was his Johnson.

[-] nomous@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

He named it "Jumbo"

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[-] affiliate@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

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

[-] MadBob@feddit.nl 4 points 2 months ago

As someone who works with middle names, maybe you can't tell but this middle name is in a lot of distress.

[-] drolex@sopuli.xyz 23 points 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?

[-] intensely_human@lemm.ee 12 points 2 months ago

Squincy

[-] Masamune@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

John Quincy Skibidi Adams

[-] coaxil@lemm.ee 5 points 2 months ago

Seymour

[-] ICastFist@programming.dev 4 points 2 months ago

I thought it was SkiiinnEEEEERRR!

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[-] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 months ago

John S. Quincy Adams

[-] Mango@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Shinigami

[-] pigup@lemmy.world 43 points 1 month ago

President Fake A. Gay

[-] Tamkish@programming.dev 4 points 1 month ago

Randomass Fakenamington

[-] Agent641@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

He's got my vote!

[-] M137@lemmy.world 37 points 2 months ago

"Went back 8 years later after"

Words hard.

[-] where_am_i@sh.itjust.works 17 points 1 month ago

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

[-] Baku@aussie.zone 8 points 1 month ago

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

[-] samus12345@lemmy.world 22 points 1 month 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.

[-] OldWoodFrame@lemm.ee 12 points 1 month 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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[-] zkfcfbzr@lemmy.world 14 points 2 months ago

Maybe the museum exhibit was about his nephew?

[-] Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

George Steptoe Washington

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

[-] zkfcfbzr@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Or a terrible one!

[-] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 12 points 2 months ago

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

[-] WldFyre@lemm.ee 15 points 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.

[-] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 4 points 2 months ago

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

[-] tetris11@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 months ago

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

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