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  • Duke Ellington’s first piano teacher was named Marietta Clinkscales.
  • Orizabus subaziro, a rhinoceros beetle, has a palindromic species name.
  • POSSESSIONLESSNESSES has 9 S’s.
  • “Books are companions even if you don’t open them.” — Disraeli
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