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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.
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.
Likewise, if you receive one titled "Corona", it's a virus.
this post was submitted on 22 Nov 2025
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