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Mount Athos bans women—and even female animals
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The monastic community of Mount Athos takes isolation to a highly aggressive extreme. For over a thousand years, they have strictly forbidden any women from stepping foot on the land, claiming it would entirely distract the monks. They are so ridiculously strict about this rule that they even ban female domestic animals from crossing the border.
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