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Lateral with Tom Scott

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The Origins of the Calibri Font

A news organization published a fake memo meant to incriminate someone, or cast aspersions on a presidential candidate. According to the notes, Dorman produced a document that had been printed in a font called Calibri. This only became a standard font in Microsoft Word in 2007 and wasn't even created by the creator Lucas DeGroote until 2004. But I do love the idea of him being like, like them be like, "This was made in this font"

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