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TIL: Jesus’ name translated from Hebrew to English would be ‘Joshua’. We get the name 'Jesus’ by translating the Hebrew name to Greek to Latin to English.

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NZgJ TIL that Oxford University is so old that no one really even knows when it was founded.
Ype7G TIL 90% of Korean boys have to go to the Army before they hit 25
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