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"publishedAt": "2026-06-22T00:57:06.000Z",
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"Abraham Lincoln",
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"textContent": "While watching a broadcast about the Artemis moon launch, Josh from Jacksonville, Florida, noted that amid all the precise language, scientists describing precise orbital adjustments used the word tad, as in just a tad, which seemed like the opposite of precise. The word tad was American slang for a small child in the mid-19th century, […]",
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