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TIL the opposite of an oxymoron is called a tautology

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dEY8 TIL beer was illegal in Iceland from 1935-1989 while all stronger drinks were legal.
b9d0N TIL a human egg cell is visible to the naked eye – about the size of a period in standard-size font.
jNaMM TIL Hersheys successfully argued in a US court that the average American cannot read and is confused by packaging in the same colour.
gR5b TIL the Italian words widely used in New Jersey differ greatly from mainstream Italian today not because of bad “copying” but because the words came from people speaking an Italian dialect that subsequently died out in Italy
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