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Are there any facts mentioned in the Bible that would not have been common knowledge at the time?

<span>Photograph: dalekhelen / Alamy/Alamy</span>
Photograph: dalekhelen / Alamy/Alamy

Are there any facts, either scientific or geographical, mentioned in the Bible that would not have been common knowledge at the time? For example, the existence of other continents and races?

Peter Ferguson, Inverness

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