How many stories have been lost throughout history? #TEDTalks

This is a 30,000page leatherbound book that has over 17,000 entries. It's called the Encyclopedia of Invisibility. Now, this is arranged alphabetically, and the organizing principle was to try to include the kinds of things that you may not ever learn at school. Now, the great Robert Smalls freed himself from slavery, overtook a bunch of Confederate ships, freed a whole bunch of slaves from those ships, and then majestically marched on to become one of the first black congressmen in the United States. Then there's an entry on rhinoceros. Did any of you know there was a woolly rhinoceros? Then there's an entry on Sister Rosetta Tharp, the mother of all rock and roll. Then there's an entry on the great John Edmonston, the man that taught a very young Charles Darwin the art of taxiderermy and a whole lot more. To come to think of it, the only entry missing from this book is an entry that explains how you can put a full pair of socks into a dryer and somehow only one foot comes out. Now after 12 years, a limited edition of this encyclopedia was published as an artwork. And this experience truly convinced me that there are an infinite amount of lost stories to be told and there's no real limits to how they can be told. Can these lost stories hold a key that unlocks our sense of belonging? Now, I know all of you have access to lost stories. So please, let's not let them be lost forever.