stackyFACTSThe standard professional greeting originally stemmed from intense, life-threatening paranoia. Grabbing someone's forearm and vigorously shaking it was genuinely intended to dislodge any hidden daggers completely concealed inside their loose sleeves.
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Romantic love was completely irrelevant. Aristocratic weddings were purely calculated corporate mergers involving entire provinces, massive dowries, and…
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Grasping someone's sweaty palm was completely entirely unacceptable for centuries. Polite society heavily demanded strict bowing or totally polite curtsying…
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Emperors thought castrating their advisors would brilliantly prevent them from starting rival dynasties. Instead, it just created an incredibly tightly-knit,…
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Mughal emperors celebrated their birthdays with an absurd flex: sitting on a massive scale opposite an equal weight of solid gold, silver, and precious gems.…
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Byzantine emperors loved blinding their political rivals instead of killing them because Orthodox Christian theology dictated that a mutilated person could…
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Bohemian Protestants kicked off the Thirty Years' War in 1618 by literally tossing three Catholic officials out of a third-story window in Prague. In an era…
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