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Some of the most important innovations have come from the world's most unlikely sources.

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Polina Pompliano
Sep 20, 2020
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Some of the most important innovations have come from the world's most unlikely sources.

In 1857, the members of the Philological Society of London decided that existing English language dictionaries were incomplete. They thought up a crazy experiment: What if they could create a revolutionary new dictionary? It would be one that en…

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