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Geek Trivia: Prior to Wikipedia, what work held a centuries-long record for longest encyclopedia ever written?

... might be SOPA.

is by Gilbert Hernandez
http://books.google.fi/books/about/Palomar_1.html?id=M_I_GQAACAAJ&redir_esc=y

I haven't read any of that series, or even heard of it before.

The Internet gives your truth sensing muscle a work out.It's a big planet and some tell powerful lies.

Simply spout off what they THINK is true. I am reminded of some of the lyrics of "A Puzzlement" from Rodgers and Hammerstein's The King and I:

That tho' a man may be in doubt of what he know,
Very quickly he will fight...
He'll fight to prove that what he does not know is so!