I came across this youtube video about the history of the Lorem ipsum text — the world's famous placeholder text. Maybe others find this video also interesting.
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A few points that I think could be of interest:
Lorem ipsum has been used as placeholder text since 1966. For decades nobody knew what it was or where it came from.
"Lorem ipsum" was created by taking real Latin text from Cicero and modifying it — removing key words that carried meaning, adding non-Latin letters, garbling phrases. The modifications were small and selective. The result looks like Latin but is unreadable. It fooled everyone for decades until one scholar noticed a rare word and traced it back to its source.