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  "textContent": "## Next week's breakthrough: why \"knife\" starts with a K.\n\nIn the middle of calling someone stupid, Donald Trump took a detour into what appeared to be a fresh personal revelation about basic English spelling, carefully explaining that \"dumb\" contains a silent B as though this was a major scientific breakthrough. — Read the rest \n\nThe post Grandpa Pudding Brains: \"Most people don't know dumb has a B\" appeared first on Boing Boing.",
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