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TIL About the underground city of Derinkuyu, located in Turkey. Large enough to hold 20 000 people and containing chapels, storage rooms and stables it was re-discovered accidentally when a Turkish man was trying to expand his home and knocked down a wall leading into the tunnel complex.

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