Rewriting History

If you're taking notes in history class, aren't you just rewriting history?

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Explanation

Explain Bear

Listen up, smarty-pants! The joke is playing on the word "rewriting". When you write something down, you are literally rewriting it, right? But history is already written, so you're not actually rewriting history, you're just taking notes. I bet you feel silly right now.