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TIL that the story of"Cinderella" is a folk tale with thousands of variants throughout the world. The story of Rhodopis, recounted by the Greek geographer Strabo sometime between around 7 BC and AD 23, is usually considered to be the earliest known variant of the Cinderella story

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