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TIL about 16th-century Dutch linguist Johannes Goropius Becanus. He argued that Dutch was the original language of creation spoken in paradise, that Adam & Eve were Dutch, that the Garden of Eden was located in the Netherlands, and that ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs derived from Dutch

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