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Is There a Real Mount Sapo?

People had been making soap for a couple thousand years already. The Romans were into it, not just from that legend, but also Pliny the Elder mentioned it in his naturalistic story from 77 CE. It took another 300 years for someone to be like, I wonder if you could use this on your underarms as well. And they went, what about your face? They're like, you know where you've been washing with that stuff. There really is a... Oh, God. The Mount Sapo was fake. I just thought the legend was fake. Are there Romans? Are they fake? I don't know. The jury is kind of still there are today, but we

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