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TIL about the Criterion of Embarrassment, a method to access the reliability of the gospels. It suggests if a detail in the gospels would have been embarrassing for the early Christian community to invent, then it is more likely to be true.

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64dQ TIL Thomas Jefferson became interested in Indian burial mounds near his Virginia home and decided to excavate them and record his findings. His use of trenching and stratigraphy make it the first Archaeological dig in North America
YJGd TIL “You Get What You Give” by the New Radicals has been praised by Joni Mitchell, who said it “rose from the swamp of ‘McMusic’ like a flower of hope.” The Edge from U2 singled it out as the song he most wished he had written, and Ice-T cited it as one song that had grabbed him, outside of rap.
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jMBR TIL scientists have created a language called Lincos designed for communicating with alien civilizations, should the need ever arise.