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TIL Semantic Satiation - When you hear/say a word too many times that it temporarily loses its meaning and sounds like gibberish.

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WkQNo TIL the word "synonym" has two synonyms - "poecilonym" and "polyonym"
9VLX TIL a Hiroshima policeman went to Nagasaki to teach police about ducking after the atomic flash. As a result of this timely warning, not a single Nagasaki policeman died.
MeD8b TIL: The words "senile" and "senator" are based on the same Latin root word meaning "old man"
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v18X4 TIL In 1970, the Oregon Highway Division consulted with the US Navy and decided the best way to dispose of a whale carcass was to blow it up with a 1/2 ton of dynamite. The explosion caused blubber to rain down on spectators for over a 1/4 of a mile. A large chunk demolished a car.