Yeah, they knew this by reading the article, it seemed like. They were relating it to their experience, mentioned in the article, about it existing there. They were just surprised to find out they had it before the US. This doesn’t really denote them not having read the article.
If you click the article link, then use a process called “reading”, you would see:
Edit: I misunderstood and assumed he hadn’t read the article, which is entirely too common these days.
God forbid I react to the article after reading it
Yeah, they knew this by reading the article, it seemed like. They were relating it to their experience, mentioned in the article, about it existing there. They were just surprised to find out they had it before the US. This doesn’t really denote them not having read the article.