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TIL that women are responsible for 90% of modern language changes, with teenage girls historically having been the linguistic innovators

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KOvgE TIL pedestrianism was the biggest sport in America before the rise of modern spectator sports
V6xk TIL the term “Bus Factor” - The number of people in a company who need to be ‘run over by a bus’ to send the company into such disarray that it would not be able to proceed.
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