stackyFACTSAll of recorded human knowledge is shockingly tiny. If you strip away all the photos, videos, and interface elements, the raw uncompressed text of every English Wikipedia article totals less than a hundred gigabytes. You could fit the collective wisdom of humanity on a cheap thumb drive bought at a gas station.
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