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TIL that “56% of Americans believe that "Adam and Eve were real people", and 44% believe so with strong or absolute certainty”

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Xv6r TIL that there’s an urbex movement in Paris that documents and repairs the city’s underworld, including secretly fixing the Panthéon’s clock because the government couldn’t be bothered to do so.
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