stackyFACTSCheers! Smashing your drinking cups together wasn't a celebration; it was a desperate survival tactic. The intense sloshing was completely intended to splash your drink into their cup and vice versa, guaranteeing that if someone poisoned the wine, everybody was going down together.
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