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August 5, 2005

72 Virgins raisins

This makes me laugh, but supposedly, the 72 virgins in paradise is a mistranslation of Syriac, its actually “raisins”.

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Posted by the at August 5, 2005 2:36 PM

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Yeah, and you can make wine from raisins!

Posted by: dearieme at August 8, 2005 4:31 AM