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TIL that we have the skull of Mary Magdalene housed in a basilica in France. It was found in 1279 with a wooden tablet wrapped in wax that said, “Hic requiescit magdelenae corpus Mariae,” Latin for, “Here lies the body of Mary Magdalene.”

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