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TIL the word nimrod comes from a biblical figure, king Nimrod, who was a mighty hunter, but now means a stupid person after Bugs Bunny sarcastically referred to the hunter Elmer Fudd as nimrod in 1932. Most people did not get the joke and assumed it meant «stupid».

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