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TIL “Cynical” and “Canine” come from the same Greek word “kynikos” meaning “dog-like”

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4kdp5 TIL: America considers Jesus to be white because a Lebanese man, George Shishim, arguing for his citizenship in federal court in 1909 said that, “If I am a Mongolian, then so was Jesus, because we came from the same land.”
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