@NickEast_IndieWriter @reading @bookstodon @books @humor@fedigroups.social @humor@lemmy.world @aiop Yes, that's how I learned an unusually large amount of knowledge about spacecraft and space exploration when I was a child. I ignored the fact that the books were "above my reading level". By osmosis I absorbed the data, and eventually the separate bits of data started linking together and cross-correlating.