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• the Grutas de Cacahuamilpa National Park in Mexico includes one of the largest cave systems in the world, with some openings wide enough to be used as concert halls?
• the Cave of the Mounds’s many speleothems have earned it recognition as the “jewel box” of North American caves?
• the Vercors Cave System contains the largest cave entrance in Europe?
• the blind cave beetle Leptodirus hochenwartii, originally discovered in 1831 in the Postojna cave system, was the first animal to be recognized as a true cave dweller?
• there have been at least fifteen deaths at the Welsh cave Porth yr Ogof in the last twenty years, all but one in the seven-metre-deep Resurgance Pool?
• the Cave Bath of Miskolc, Hungary is an unusual thermal bath with low salt content, in a natural cave, that allows people to take a bath for a longer time?
• the Blauhöhle in Germany's Swabian Alb is a huge cave system with more than 50-meter (164-feet) high caverns that can be accessed by diving through the Blautopf (pictured)?
• Tung Hua Lin led a team that designed and built China's first twin-engine aircraft in a cave to avoid detection by the Japanese during World War II?
• white nose syndrome has caused a mortality rate of over 90% of bats in some caves?
• Eigenmannia vicentespelaea is the only known South American knifefish that exclusively inhabits caves?
• a Vihara is an Indian Buddhist cave monastery that takes its name from the Sanskrit word for "a secluded place in which to walk"?
• Charterhouse Cave is the deepest cave in Southern England?

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