today's lucky 10,000

== English == === Alternative forms === today's lucky ten thousand === Etymology === Coined by American cartoonist, author and engineer Randall Munroe in 2012 in his webcomic xkcd, based on a calculation that given four million yearly births in the United States, about ten thousand people learn something that "everyone knows" every day. === Noun === today's lucky 10,000 pl (plural only) A theoretical set of 10,000 people who learn something considered "common knowledge" for the first time. For quotations using this term, see Citations:today's lucky 10,000. === References ===