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Boosted by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):
daniel_bohrer@chaos.social ("Daniel Bohrer") wrote:

Before 1948, someone once came up with this nice 7-word palindrome:
"A man, a plan, a canal – Panama!"

Then in 1983, someone extended it to 9 words:
"A man, a plan, a cat, a canal – Panama!"

And someone cleverer was able to extend it even further to 13 words:
"A man, a plan, a cam, a yak, a yam, a canal – Panama!"

Then in 1984 someone used Unix, a word list and a search algorithm, and it came up with this 540-word behemoth of a palindrome, which barely fits on my screen:

A very long list of phrases of the form "a <!-- raw HTML omitted -->", filling the whole screen, beginning with "A man, a plan, a caret, a ban, a myriad, a sum, a lac, a liar, a hoop, a pint, a catalpa" and ending with "a plat, a catnip, a pooh, a rail, a calamus, a dairyman, a bater, a canal – Panama"