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I never understood this point. I can discover a crowded restaurant in downtown. Did other people know about it before me? Of cause, but no one I know
'discover' in the meme and in your comment don't have the same meaning. But if this was a competition of who can use a dictionary, you would have won for sure.
I just don't think so. I mean, sure, it's a different context but I still feel like "there has no one been there before" just isn't part of the meaning. Sure, "for the first time" is but it doesn't include for whom. I just feel this is a weak point to make. "Marco Polo and the Discovery of the World" is a book by John Learner, who apparently thought the earth was uninhabited