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TIL, Valerian Trifa was the archbishop of Detroit, Michigan that was discovered as an ex nazi who immigrated to the United States.

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P0KO TIL that the word “Aibohphobia”, meaning “fear of palindromes”, is a joke word deliberately constructed to be one.
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