(May 9, 2025 at 10:12 pm)Rev. Rye Wrote: In 2016, MIT decided to figure out the most important people in history. Their metric? To find the people with the most translated pages on Wikipedia. #3 (behind only Jesus Christ and Barack Obama) wound up being Corbin Bleu. You know, the token black kid from High School Musical?
Yeah, him. For what it's worth, they're still maintaining this list, but Bleu has dropped down to only #17, just below people like Aristotle, Mozart, and Shakespeare. Odder still, the current #1 is someone named David Woodard.
Stupid metric. Fame doesn't necessarily equal importance.
Boru
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