The number of people in the small town of Spencer,Iowa,for example, dropped from eleven thousand to eight thousand in just a few years.

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But it was there for over a thousand years, and we now know things to be a little different.

但是，它存在了超过1000年，我们现在知道的事情有点不一样。

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