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TIL Mary Shelley, creator of Frankenstein,also wrote one of the first Dystopian novels, The Last Man

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YpZdd TIL that the largest cave in the world is Hang Soon Doong and is located in Vietnam and it could contain an entire city with 40-story skyscrapers and in contains a large underground forest that was able to grow and developed thanks to skylights created by the collapse of parts of its vault.
JYrp1 TIL Thomas Jefferson’s slave mistress, Sally Hemings, was the child of his father-in-law with his own slave, making her his wife’s half-sister
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