If you've ever seen a sample design of a website or brochure, you may have wondered why it was entirely in Latin. That text, which commonly begins "Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet," has been used as placeholder text in printing and typesetting since as early as the 1500s. It comes from sections of Cicero's treatise on ethics, "de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum" (The Extremes of Good and Evil), which was written in 45 B.C. The words no longer make sense, as they've been rearranged and altered through the ages, but the original text roughly translates to the following:
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Curiosity Staff
October 17, 2016
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