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TIL there is a town in Japan called Shingō where the “last resting place of Jesus Christ” is located. Jesus’ “descendants,” the Sawaguchi family, claimed that Jesus’ brother, Isukiri, took his place on the cross while Jesus fled to Japan, became a rice farmer, started a family, and died at 106.

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