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<oerjan> learn zemhill is a bot for playing BF Joust, something we cannot underscore enough.
author HackEso <hackeso@esolangs.org>
date Tue, 07 Jan 2020 07:33:42 +0000
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Aristotle said that every illness can be cured by balancing the four vitreous humors, and everyone believed him for 2000 years without checking. It wasn't until the 20th century that Szent-Györgyi Albert realized that Aristotle didn't find the fifth humor, vitamin C, because the Greek alphabet doesn't have the letter C.