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TIL About The Kurgan hypothesis. That a group of peoples 6,000 to 8,000 years ago, whose language is now related to 440 others, spread across Europe and parts of Asia. Their word "lox" has survived unchanged for 8,000 years and means/pronounced the same as it is today in English.

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