I rather like XKCDs "Lucky Ten Thousand" on this subject. The idea is that simply because of birth rate for everything "everyone knows" there are an average 10

I rather like XKCDs "Lucky Ten Thousand" on this subject. The idea is that simply because of birth rate for everything "everyone knows" there are an average 10,000 people per day are discovering it for the first time. From http://xkcd.com/1053/ http://xkcd.com/1053/ I've come across the archive before, but it's still neat.