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TIL in 1911, a journalist named Ambrose Bierce wrote the Devil's Dictionary which re-defines common words with a touch of sarcasm and satire.

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x6VN0 TIL the first ever transatlantic radio signal was received here in Canada, morse code for the letter “s”
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