In The Onion article titled Wikipedia Celebrates 750 Years Of American Independence: “At 750 years, the U.S. is by far the world’s oldest surviving democracy, and is certainly deserving of our recognition,” [Wikipedia founder Jimmy] Wales said. “According to our database, that’s 212 years older than the Eiffel Tower, 347 years older than the earliest-known woolly-mammoth fossil, and a full 493 years older than the microwave oven.”
The article makes reference to the Treaty of Algeron. If you’ve never heard of it, that’s because it’s fictional. It’s a treaty mentioned in Star Trek: The Next Generation that formalized a peace between the United Federation of Planets and the Romulan Star Empire. Among other things, it stipulated that the Federation would not pursue the development of cloaking device technology for its ships.
The scary thing: I knew that without having to look it up.
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But if you hadn't known, you could have looked it up on Wikipedia.
But if you hadn't known, you could have looked it up on Wikipedia.