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TIL the ocean liner "Stockholm" that collided with and sunk the Italian liner "Andrea Doria" in 1956 is still in use today as a cruise ship

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GY5WN TIL acre and the prefix agri- (agriculture) share a common ancestor in an ancient Bronze age language, proto-indo-european. The same is true for the words futile and God.
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