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Re:Japan's Rail Workers Pointing at Things (2017) by GuiA on Sunday January 20, 2019 @02:25PM (#18954997)
> how strange is it when you learn something new of which you haven't known about your whole life only to several days later see it appear on hn.. is there a name for this sort of thing?

https://science.howstuffworks.com/life/inside-the-mind/human...

Re:Japan's Rail Workers Pointing at Things (2017) by xemoka on Sunday January 20, 2019 @02:32PM (#18955066)
I just looked up the name of this phenomenon about 10 minutes ago for something entirely unrelated... How self-reinforcing!