stackyFACTSAnnoyed that his valuable tennis balls kept rolling into an open sewer grate during matches, the Scottish king ordered the drain firmly sealed. Months later, when assassins attacked the castle, he tried to escape through that exact drain, only to abruptly remember his own terrible plumbing decision.
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