Are you NOT an encyclopedia?

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As of a few years ago I used to be a veritable human atlas and had an arguably encyclopedic knowledge of history... when I was in 1st grade the local university sent some people over to talk to me about my enormous knowledge of and interest in ancient Egypt... I still tend to shock people with what they tend to call "obscure" or "random" knowledge, but I'm become pretty jaded lately so I imagine I've lost some of the edge that I had when I was 12 or so.

I guess I sorta am. I remember all kinds of trivia stuff. Other than the sports stuff I always thought it was stuff people should know.

Not really much of an encyclopedia, more of a monograph or a chronicle.

I'm only a vague encyclopedia at the most.
I will forget some minor details if it's a large subject, but as for stuff like events or stuff that happened then I can explain in full detail.

I am also an "encyclopedia" on logic. Often improving to myself when I am alone about random philosophy or logic crap, such as "what is the point of living if we all end up dying."

Usually deep stuff no one cares about, lol

I am also a dictionary, providing the definitions for "big" words and the spelling. Not as much for grammar, but I'm working on it.
Also stuff like animals or human behavior.

I have always been good at Trivial Pursuit. Now that I am in my 50's, I am not always good at remembering things (like trivia) quickly. I have a good general knowledge about many subjects. And, of course an especially good knowledge of any of my past or present interests.

I think people often think these days that having a good general knowledge about many things is not important now that we can usually look things up on the web so quickly. I still think it is important, because having that knowledge in my head allows me to analyze new information in relation to all my current knowledge.

I am definitely not an encyclopedia!

I am just my own self.

I may be succinct but I know I am my own self!

I know some things but I don't know even more!

Some people seem to think of me as being an encyclopedia...people will sometimes come to me with the weirdest questions on stuff.

I'm about as encyclopedic as an NT most of the time. I think I have an encyclopedia, but it's not stuff I can say, it's pictures.

When I was younger, I used to be a real encyclopedia, but with random snippets of information. My mother bought me a little book with facts some time ago. Now that I've started reading it again, I know that a parsec (pc) is 3258 light years and the sun makes up 99,8% of all the mass in the solar system.

I would say i have a good knowledge at certain things but definitely not a encyclopedia as i find that term way to misleading.