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Getting diagnosed with leprosy in the Middle Ages meant you literally had to attend your own funeral. Patients exiled to lazarets—isolated medical compounds…
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If you look closely at older buildings in London and Berlin, you can still see the shrapnel scars embedded in the stone. These silent urban wounds serve as an…
Discover moreWhen Emperor Babur arrived in India, he was absolutely appalled by the blistering heat and the dust, basically leaving a one-star Yelp review of the local…
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Even while fighting off screaming Picts at the miserable, freezing edge of the known world, Roman legionaries absolutely refused to skip spa day. At the…
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To ensure the massive twin towers in Malaysia went up fast, the government hired two different international construction teams and pitted them against each…
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Majestic architecture completely ruined by basic biology. Many towering castles featured projecting toilets that simply dropped human waste straight down the…
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