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TIL about “minced oaths” — a type of euphemism based on a profanity or blasphemy that has been altered to remove the objectionable characteristics of the original expression

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xVVZ0 TIL Walt Disney Held And Personally Judged A Beauty Pageant Of His Female Artists
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6EGK7 TIL the US Public Health Service is a uniformed service that fights in the war against viruses and disease. It has its own official song, and the highest ranked officer in the service is the Surgeon General.
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