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There was 1 Thai restaurant in my smallish hometown. I moved very far away to a large metro and went to some Thai restaurant. Turns out the owners of these restaurants new eachother in Thailand.



Everyone is at most 7 connections away :)

The world is smaller than we assume


> Everyone is at most 7 connections away

That is not strictly true, but the world is certainly smaller than we tend to think.

    However, detractors argue that Milgram's experiment did not demonstrate such a link, and the "six degrees" claim has been decried as an "academic urban myth".’
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six_degrees_of_separation


What about those uncontacted tribes!?




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