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Cool trick!

I thought maybe this would be a good way to generate a list of fifty states (without having to find a random page that has a straight-up list) and so I started out by typing:

   Alabama
   Delaware
   Connecticut
   Iowa
And dragged down, however, it only found me roughly 20 more states. I guess there must be a limitation of the query interface...i.e. "find related items, limit 20", rather than: "This user is looking for all 50 state names, so autofill"

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edit: And for the hell of it, I entered three of George Carlin's seven dirty words and it only returned a fourth (and a few other non-canonical-dirty-words)



This is off topic but I absolutely love George Carlin. Very smart guy and well before his time. Just went back and listened to his seven words bit, still just as hilarious.


I also noticed that it inserts some empty rows in between. So if it appears to not to show results anymore, just drag it even more, it'll show the rest of them with more empty rows in between .


I got all 50 states when I tried it. Make sure you use lowercase or it'll duplicate the ones you entered.




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