Had you any idea that the collective noun for a group of rhinoceroses is called a crash?
I didn't even know that the plural of rhinoceros was rhinoceroses...
Guess it's just a simple example of how you learn something new everyday.
Whether it be something about yourself, a friend, current event, whatever...it's just good to learn. Learning improves your self worth. It upgrades your intellect. It humbles you. The only disadvantage you could argue about learning is something along the lines of, "Too much information," which is rarely appropriate and usually applies to social settings only. Even so, why would you rather be kept in the dark? Rhetorical question. I guess that's why the common phrase ignorance is bliss exists. Horribly accurate, disgustingly true.
HOWEVER, I'm okay with trading in my bliss for knowledge. I would much rather know the truth, than frolic through life thinking everyone and everything is hunky-dory. Although I'll never pursue a career in intelligence, I have always longed to know the national secrets to which an intelligence officer may be exposed. Area 51? The truth behind 9/11? JFK's assassination?
It would be fantastic to know the truth.
Realistically, I have to accept that I will never know and take pleasure in the simple discoveries of collective nouns.
I mean seriously...a CRASH of RHINOS!!!
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