Medieval courts put animals on trial

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Bringing a literal pig into a courtroom to hold it completely accountable for ruined crops. A phenomenal and completely serious use of public resources.

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Medieval knights rode horses no bigger than ponies

Before germ theory was discovered, medieval plague doctors wore those terrifying bird masks for what specific reason?

Medieval cities were not quiet, candlelit villages; they were noisy, smoky, and filled with rules about when you were allowed to move in the dark.

For most of human history, nobody expected minutes to matter.

Geese once saved Rome

Princeton researchers Ernest Wever and Charles Bray successfully turned a living, unconscious cat into a fully functional telephone in 1930 to study how the auditory nerve processes sound.

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