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TIL the feminine companion word to phallic is yonic, meaning imagery evoking or in the shape of the vulva or vagina.

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4PnX TIL that the Credit Card industry refers to people who pay their credit card bills off every month as “deadbeats”
4X5X5 TIL that the dedication page at the front of published books was originally used as a way for an author to beg a high-influence person for money.
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