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[–] Fuckfuckmyfuckingass@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Fun fact: Employees of the SPAM Corporation aren't allowed to refer to Spam emails as such, instead they call them as "Unwanted Emails," instead.

[–] Devial@discuss.online 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Fun fact, Spam, as in spiced ham, is actually the origin of the name email spam. There's a monty python sketch where the name Spam keeps getting incessantly repeated, and based on that sketch the term spam for unsolicited digital messages was coined.