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Fictional travelogues dominated 16th-century books
HERE’S THE INTERESTING PART
Hundreds of years ago, people loved reading about foreign lands so much that authors just started inventing places. Fake diaries claiming to describe magical islands and bizarre societies became massive bestsellers, mostly because readers had literally no way to fact-check if the author actually left their house.
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