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TIL the guy who voiced aol’s “you’ve got mail.” is now an Uber driver.

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m1jdy TIL After the integration of Nunavik into Canada, the Inuktitut language has added thousands of words to itself in the last few decades, at the same time that many words became obsolete and lost. New words include “Funnialuk” — as in “very funny.”
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