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Betelgeuse was on course to collide with a wall of dust around 7,000 A.D.

Years of consideration preceding the inclusion of the word “phat” in Random House’s 1996 Compact Unabridged Dictionary:

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In Belize, a construction company bulldozed a 2,300-year-old Mayan temple to make road fill.

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