"who knew" meaning in All languages combined

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Phrase [English]

Head templates: {{head|en|phrase|head=who knew?}} who knew?
  1. Expressing surprise, or ironic lack of surprise, upon learning something. Categories (topical): English rhetorical questions Related terms: who would have thunk it, who knows?
    Sense id: en-who_knew-en-phrase-~LYk-h98 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries
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          "ref": "1999, The New York Times Biographical Service, volume 30, page 1518:",
          "text": "[…] on at least a dozen occasions, the Supreme Court itself […] had spent the last three decades scrutinizing and parsing, expanding and restricting and harmonizing and distinguishing a decision that had been null and void all along. Who knew!",
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