stackyFACTSRussian Empress Elisabeth was notoriously paranoid and utterly terrified of sleeping alone. Her bizarre coping mechanism was to hire a rotating shift of exhausted servants whose sole, terrifying duty was to gently tickle and scratch the royal soles until she finally managed to pass out.
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