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Houses just featured a gaping hole in the roof, meaning absolutely everyone constantly smelled like they spent the weekend at a miserable bonfire.
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Without an electric kettle, just making a cup of hot water required building a fire from scratch, hauling heavy iron, and waiting half the morning.
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Hence the phrase 'sleep tight,' because if you didn't manually crank the ropes every day, your saggy bed would dump you directly onto the freezing floor.
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Contrary to the widespread myth that everyone was permanently filthy, medieval bathhouses were hugely popular, steamy social hangouts.
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Before the luxury of individual glassware, an entire table of aristocrats would simply pass one massive, slobber-covered cup around the table, taking turns…
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If you didn't aggressively smack your bed with a large stick, all the assorted bugs and mice would get a little too comfortable inside your sleeping space.
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