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Among the Danakil tribesmen of Ethiopia, when a male dies his grave is marked with a stone for every man he killed
I knew that.jeepdude10000 said:Meramec Caverns is the largest commercial cave in the state of Missouri. Missouri is also known as the “Cave State,” as it is home to more than 6,000 surveyed caves. Over the centuries, local tribes of Indians used Meramec Caverns as shelter. In the 1700s, French miner Jacques Renault founded one of the Cavern's greatest natural resources, saltpeter. This substance was used exclusively for the manufacture of gunpowder. Local legend claims the cave was used as a station on the "Underground Railroad" to hide escaping slaves. In the early 1870s, Jesse James and his band hid in the Caverns on many occasions because it afforded a safe hideout for men and horses after train and bank robberies.
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