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The whole site was actually coded in one night by a team of unsleeping, unwavering badgers. Nothing you are currently reading existed the day before.
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The first user on Anthologica registered on January 1st, 2014.
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The square root of rope is string.
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Anthologica's original name was the Atlas Universe Repository.
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Trivial things are seldom worth promoting.
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The Aurbis is the mythic dream that the Godhead, Anu, retreated into after his lover, Nir, was killed by his brother, Padomay.
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Around half a million Akanans speak
Jamna Kopiai natively, but more than twice that number have learned it second-hand because of its popularity in trade.
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Underneath your clothing, you are naked right now.
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Although
Shapshiruckish defines ten unique numerals, larger numbers must be assembled through extensive repetition.
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The standard orthography of
Shapshiruckish uses Roman numerals to represent its three reconstructed fricatives.
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The term "Samoyed" was originally a Russian word, a corrupted form of the ethnonym Saamod. Samoyed in Russian literally means "Self-Eating" and thus the term came to be considered pejorative, although this is not the original meaning, being a false etymology.
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In
Starway, humans' interstellar habitations are notorious for being very cramped and noisy. So much so that most other species may develop a psychosis from staying just a week aboard.
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The
Tzuman Language is the major trading language of northern Šaol, spoken across all of Western Rašau and nearly all of Htelui, and usually widely understood in Eastern Rašau and parts of the Littoral as well.
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The early Anaşali city-state of
Kitran first began moving towards becoming an empire when it amicably absorbed the northerly trading city of
Saşém.
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The god
Derision nearly died trying to achieve divinity and was revived and granted the godhood by the mother goddess Mieril.
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Traditionally, Netsilik Inuit hunters had five ways of finding a wife: 1. marriage arranged by parents at birth; 2. marriage arranged by parents in adulthood; 3. the two individuals decide on their own to marry; 4. a man kidnaps a woman he wants; 5. a man murders and replaces the husband of the woman he wants.
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The ancient desert citadel of
Shiffaract claims to have been founded as a fortress used to train a divine army against a terrible power in the north of
Rašau.
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