stackyFACTSThe ultimate case of royal hubris. The King of Castile was so annoyed by the complex mathematical models of the stars that he openly boasted that if God had consulted him at creation, the universe would be much simpler.
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Holy infallibility apparently has a few historical loopholes. Pope John XII took the papacy in the 10th century and immediately turned the Lateran Palace into…
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While other leaders focused on administration, Henry was aggressively collecting supposed holy artifacts like an eccentric museum curator. His obsession…
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His doctors begged him to stop eating terrifying, parasitic blood-sucking eels. Henry ignored them, ate a massive mountain of them, and promptly died of food…
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The traditional springtime dance around a wooden pole was deemed sexually suggestive by 17th-century fundamentalists. They violently chopped down the Maypoles…
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Because imported porcelain was incredibly fragile and expensive, the Russian elite adopted the "podstakannik," a fancy metal cage designed for holding glass…
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Queen Victoria survived at least seven separate assassination attempts during her reign, most of which were carried out by teenagers armed with incredibly…
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