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TIL that the ‘Lorem Ipsum’ text is typically a scrambled section from Cicero’s work 'De finibus bonorum et malorum’ ('On the ends of good and evil’) from the 1st Century BC. 'Lorem ipsum’ is derived from the Latin 'dolorem ipsum’ - “pain itself”.

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