til·Today I LearnedbySoyTDI TIL Mark Twain didn't say "History Does Not Repeat Itself, But It Rhymes"https://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/01/12/history-rhymes/Open linkView original on lemmy.world120Comments16
actionjbone sh.itjust.works1Hide 1 replyYou can't believe everything you've heard on the internet. Just like Abe Lincoln said.43
PProprietary_Blend lemmy.worldJust wait until you learn how the free exchange of information and ideas has led billions to believe all sorts of nonsense.25
🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 pawb.social1Hide 1 replyAnd Colonel Sanders never actually said "I'm too drunk to taste this chicken."10
ggramie replylemmy.caBut he did say something like, "after I sold my restaurants to a corporation, the chicken tastes like shit".1
elevenbones piefed.socialBut he did say: "What's the difference between ignorance and apathy? I don't know and I dont care!" ...Or at least I'm pretty sure that was him.6
FFlashMobOfOne lemmy.worldMany famous phrases and quotes are misunderstandings or fabricated. It's interesting to read about it.5
GGrass sh.itjust.worksshe keeps moet et chandon in her pretty cabinet "let them eat cake" she says just like marie antoinette3
You can't believe everything you've heard on the internet. Just like Abe Lincoln said.
What is internet??
Just wait until you learn how the free exchange of information and ideas has led billions to believe all sorts of nonsense.
TIL people thought Mark Twain said that.
And Colonel Sanders never actually said "I'm too drunk to taste this chicken."
But he did say something like, "after I sold my restaurants to a corporation, the chicken tastes like shit".
True, that was Abraham Lincoln.
I heard it was Michael Scott.
Wayne Gretzky
Oh, yeah! It was from that one Wheaties commercial, right?
But he did say:
"What's the difference between ignorance and apathy?
I don't know and I dont care!"
...Or at least I'm pretty sure that was him.
Many famous phrases and quotes are misunderstandings or fabricated. It's interesting to read about it.
In fact, nobody has ever said anything.
Says who?
Can confirm.
she keeps moet et chandon in her pretty cabinet
"let them eat cake" she says just like marie antoinette