"Rara avis in terris nigroque simillima cygno"
(Latin, translation: "A rare bird in the lands and very much like a black swan")
The phrase was first recorded by 2nd-century Roman poet Juvenal's from his work called, "Satire VI." When the phrase was coined, the black swan was presumed not to...
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