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One of the words we keep hearing about this moment we're all living through right now

is unprecedented, breaking news, unprecedented job loss.

Unprecedented illness and fatalities, an unprecedented level of transparency.

It was an unprecedented day and I think no precedence for understanding and framing this

but it is a massive more.

There's no doubt that this is a capital B big historic event, but that doesn't necessarily

mean we'll actually remember it all that well.

You'd think that if we knew something was important while it was happening, we'd be

able to remember it more.

Shala Love is a senior staff writer for Vice and recently wrote about this.

But we know from the past that that's not true and we can learn that from asking people

how they remember other really big historical events.

Scientists have done this in studies for instance with the September 11th attacks.

For her story, Shala talked to a person about what they remember from the London Blitz,

another about the Vietnam War, and her own mom who grew up in China during the cultural

revolution.

Turns out, even for unprecedented events, the picture our mind's paint is far from clear.

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