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Subject: Today I learned…
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Date: 2020-02-11T17:50:59
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  • There's a Deaf Smith County in Texas.

  • It's named after Deaf Smith. What did I expect?

  • Deaf Smith was born Erastus Smith. His nickname was because he had a hearing impairment.

  • The smell of burnt matches is caused by sulfur dioxide.

  • The Big Dictionary's earliest citation for the phrase “R&D” is from Pohl and Kornbluth's novel The Space Merchants.


Subject: Potamus
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Date: 2020-02-11T15:56:13
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A while back I complained that the sufficx ‘-potamus’ wasn't widely-enough used. Today I saw this Reddit comment:

The only people I see with this quote on their car or on a t-shirt is the stay at home dependapotamus that complains about everything…


Subject: News
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Date: 2020-02-11T15:41:27
Newsgroup: rec.food.news
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All the news that's Rupert Grint.