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There used to be a hospital in London, England, for the mentally ill called Bethlehem Hospital. The people of London started pronouncing the name "Bethlehem" as "Bedlam". They thought of the hospital as being a wild, chaotic place because of beliefs about mentally ill people. This is how the word "Bedlam" came to mean any state of wild chaos. The building that used to house the original "Bedlam" is now the Imperial War Museum.

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