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TIL around Jesus' time, Nazareth had a population of around 400. Now it's close to 80,000.

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QJ8Kp TIL whenever Abraham Lincoln felt the urge to tell someone off, he would compose a “hot letter.” He’d pile all of his anger into a note, “put it aside until his emotions cooled down,” Doris Kearns Goodwin once explained on NPR, “and then write: ‘Never sent. Never signed.’
6Eoyw TIL Daniel Dennett, an American philosopher, writer, and scientist believed prayer was not only useless but counterproductive. After a major medical emergency, he wrote an article comparing prayers for his health to sacrificing a goat or seeking a voodoo spell, though he appreciated their kindness
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