[nate]

This is my favorite part of my day. Yesterday we were just having dinner talking about god knows what when my 9 year old drops something into convo about The Homestead Act and how many acres you could by and how they had to be developed and all these bullet points about it I haven't retained when I may have read about it so many years ago. It was delightful.

Now, there was also the part about her thinking the Mexican–American War was in 1989. Which is Taylor Swift's birthday, her favorite artist. Which is hilarious on so many levels.

[dylan604]

> Now, there was also the part about her thinking the Mexican–American War was in 1989

there was a president that thought we had airplanes during the revolutionary war, so hopefully the date mix up wasn't judged too harshly

[triceratops]

> there was also the part about her thinking the Mexican–American War was in 1989. Which is Taylor Swift's birthday,

So that's what The Great War is about!

[idiotsecant]

I have learned that to most kids anything before 2000 is basically ancient history that all blends together.

[dcminter]

My godson once solemnly asked his dad "Were dinosaurs before or after steam engines?" which is obviously adorable.