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TIL "There once was a man from Nantuckit" originally wasn't vulgar at all. First published in 1902, it goes "There once was a man from Nantucket. Who kept all his cash in a bucket. But his daughter, named Nan, Ran away with a man. And as for the bucket, Nantucket."

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