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Why do we have the completely false psychological concept of the 'Napoleon Complex' today?
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Why did people in 19th-century photographs always look incredibly serious and refuse to smile?
Discover moreBecause hitting a divine prince was treason, courts hired a proxy child to get absolutely beaten whenever the prince misbehaved. Talk about a toxic internship.
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Why did hospitals strictly ban surgeons from wearing white uniforms in the early 1900s, replacing them with green scrubs?
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How did French pharmacist Antoine-Augustin Parmentier successfully trick peasants into eating the dreaded potato in 1785?
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Or at least, she was completely convinced she did. The royal spent her life walking cautiously sideways through doorways to avoid breaking the fictional grand…
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