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TIL there is a term for when you repeat a word so much that you start to lose sense of what the word is and means: Semantic satiation (or semantic saturation)

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m1kEM TIL that there is an entire channel just dedicated to Kitchen Nightmares on Samsung Tv. It literally plays every time I turn my TV on!
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j6p9E TIL Canada celebrates Thanksgiving on the second Monday of October. Their first Thanksgiving was in 1578, whereas the US's was 43 years later in 1621
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