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TIL since 1881 people have been working on the Swiss Idiotikon a dictionary of Swiss German words. The word "Idiotikon" is a term derived from the Greek idios "separate, proper, private" for a dictionary that lists the vocabulary "peculiar" to a particular landscape.

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bXyZ TIL that the Arctic Monkeys’ performance on Jimmy Kimmel had to be canceled because Kanye West talked for too long.
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