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King Charles V of France wasted massive amounts of taxpayer money to build an exclusive college just for astrologers
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While the peasants were busy starving and dealing with the bubonic plague, the French King decided the most urgent priority was building a lavish, state-funded academy in 1371 solely to study star charts. Unsurprisingly, it didn't do much to stop the English in the Hundred Years' War.
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