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Why the Mongols killed a ruler without spilling blood
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Because shedding royal blood on the earth was considered profoundly bad luck, the Mongols found a spectacular technical loophole. When they captured the Caliph of Baghdad, they refused to stab him. Instead, they just rolled him tightly into a fancy carpet and rode their warhorses back and forth over him until he was pulverized. It kept the ground clean and delivered a terrible message about Mongolian interior design.
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