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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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RbK8 TIL Nazi censors wrote to J.R.R. Tolkien, inquiring whether he was of Jewish decent to see if they needed to ban his books in Germany. Tolkien wrote back saying he wished he could be so lucky.
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