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TIL that at least 12% of Americans think Joan of Arc was Noah’s wife, from the Bible.

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7r7wX TIL French and Italian share 89% lexical similarity, this means a native Italian without any knowledge of French can understand 89% of the words they read in French and vice versa.
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