GRAMMAR CRIMES DIVISION

The first palindrome was created by a bored monk who wanted to confuse future students.

✗ FAKE
Palindromes are words or phrases that read the same backward, and they date back at least to ancient Greek and Roman times. The first one is not known, and the monk story is a joke.

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