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TIL that there is a second Bethlehem of Galilee, a small town just a few miles west of Nazareth, where Mary and Joseph lived. An antiquities biblical archeologist proposes that this is the true birthplace of Jesus rather than Bethlehem of Judea, more than 70 miles away, south of Jerusalem.

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lAG7 TIL when 20th-century archaeologist Leonard Woolley excavated the temple at Ur, he found rows of neatly arranged artifacts of varying ages accompanied by inscriptions describing them: a 2500-year-old archaeological museum
pvg4 TIL that an Oregon survey found that panhandlers outside of WalMart were making more than the employees working inside
0deN5 TIL that Victorians once used leeches to predict the weather, and it played a role in the history of weather forecasting. If the leeches hit the bell it indicated there was a storm approaching.
1J84 TIL that Banksy swapped Paris Hiltons CD with 500 of his his own remixed versions of her album in 48 stores in the UK.
W7E0d TIL an English naval force successfully conquered Quebec in 1629. However, because the capture had happened after peace was signed in Europe, France and England agreed that it didn't count, so England returned Quebec and even paid for damages.