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TIL Nimrod was originally a great hunter in the Book of Genesis. In 1932, when Bugs Bunny called infamously bad hunter Elmer Fudd “nimrod” sarcastically in a Looney Tunes short, people missed the Biblical reference and assumed the word was just a generic insult.

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