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"smoot" dot apple dot com?

Could be further immortalization of Oliver Smoot, “a fraternity pledge to Lambda Chi Alpha, who in October 1958 lay down repeatedly on the Harvard Bridge (between Boston and Cambridge, Massachusetts) so that his fraternity brothers could use his height to measure the length of the bridge, which summed to "364.4 Smoots ± 1 ear"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smoot

Doubtless named for The Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act which raised or lowered taxes? Anyone? Anyone?
Raised tariffs, not taxes. It's an important difference, doubly so with regards to Smoot-Hawley because the whole point was to protect American companies (and therefore jobs) from foreign competition (of course, it did not work...).
(It was a Ferris Bueller's Day Off reference. Blame Ben Stein.)
... and I have not yet seen Ferris Bueller, so I didn't get the reference. Consider us even ;)
I see tons of DNS requests for this domain blocked by AdGuard. I wonder what it's for.

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