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-Markdown is a lightweight markup language for creating rich- or formatted text using a plain text editor. It was created in 2004 by John Gruber. It is widely used in online forums, blogs, documentation pages, and \`README\` files.
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-The following is a gist of Markdown example text, copied from the raw of https://gist.github.com/allysonsilva/85fff14a22bbdf55485be947566cc09e
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 \# Headers
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 \# h1 Heading 8\-\)