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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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ZpJAR TIL When Jimmy Carter left the White House, his secretary had transcribed over 5,000 pages from his personal journal. Carter waited a long time to publish his diary since it contains his unguarded impressions. "White House Diary", released in 2010, contains a quarter of everything he wrote
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dEdZ TIL that sheep commit mass suicide, the largest recorded instance was in 2005, in Turkey where 1,500 sheep followed each other over the edge of a cliff resulting in 450 deaths and approximately $100,000 in losses to the families who owned the sheeps