stackyFACTSDuring a bizarre mass hysteria in 1518, hundreds of French villagers found themselves unable to stop doing what until they collapsed?
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Why were everyday dining forks viewed as a deeply offensive scandal when first introduced to European nobility?
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Bohemian Protestants kicked off the Thirty Years' War in 1618 by literally tossing three Catholic officials out of a third-story window in Prague. In an era…
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Because what calms down a maniac better than the literal blood of a lamb. In 1667, a French doctor essentially decided a mentally ill man just needed 'calmer…
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Why did 19th-century laws forbid feeding lobster to American prison inmates more than twice a week?
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Biological warfare used to be a lot more direct and deeply humiliating. During Kett's Rebellion in Norfolk, a massive army of angry commoners held off King…
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Some artifacts are neatly labeled in museums—tools, coins, weapons. But then there are the strange bronze objects, unearthed with no clear purpose. Too odd to…
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