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TIL Germany finished paying WWI reparations only seven years ago.

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KOOR4 TIL Abraham is not the only biblical figure who was ordered to sacrifice their child to God; Jephthah of the Book of Judges offers to sacrifice his daughter, and unlike Abraham it is left ambiguous whether he spared her or not
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