Gave me a reason to dust off my crappy perl skills to merge, sort, and de-dupe the file.
Funny, I just spent a few hours putting together a dictionary for John the Ripper. And as always if you have any good resources or tools to add - do mention them in the comments. Packetstorm has some good topic-based lists including sciences, religion, music, movies and common lists.
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