For some unidentified reason, men are prone to appreciate and from time to time assimilate useless knowledge facts. This useless knowledge is the resultant of millenia of fact collecting and organization performed by humans all over the world. Our attraction to random useless knowledge may be just as much a result of our own semiempirical itch to amass statistics to help us identify ourselves inside that world. Our identity may very well survive in the myriad knowledge collected since the beginning of composed earthborn culture.

While we are oftentimes confused about the meaning of these bits of knowledge, we are nonethless driven by them. Lists of these factoids have been hoarded for ages. Even in the modern era, we see them in books like “Guinness World Records”, whose publication has been in the hands of many millions members of our species. Within these lists, we find that our own special concerns and neuroses aren’t so other. This provides us with a degree of ease that may help us continue acting in the manner we have become used to.

If we lived in a world whose goals and motives were not amassed, our our own enduring heart might also be destroyed by the ticking clock of time.

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