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TIL the original Oxford English Dictionary was laregly written by a psychiatric patient in hospital at the time who also chopped his own penis off (autopeotomy)

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O1BL TIL That a server at the University of North Carolina was physically lost for 4 years (although online) until they physically traced the cables and discovered it had been walled off.
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MewlB TIL the opposite of an oxymoron is called a tautology
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