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TIL that Abolqasem Ferdowsi wrote the Shahnameh, a Persian Epic Poem of 50,000 rhymed couplets - more than twice the length of the Iliad and Odyssey combined! It is considered the world’s longest poem written by a single poet, and is regarded as one of the supreme achievements in world literature.

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