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 I searched for a "book about palindromes" on a popular retail site, and after a few looks, the query started populating this book I hadn't seen. It was cheap so I ordered it. WHen it arrived, I noticed it looked fresh off the Xerox. Quote: "Palindromes were invented by Michael Palin of Monty Python for the fampous 'Lumberjack' skit"  That is pure horse shat, then it goes into a painfully obvious computer generated matching of respectively front/backwards dictionary words. Spun up based on query 
 @fa614c21 ugh, sorry. I hear there's quite a plague of Ai-generated or Wikipedia-copied books out there.