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Jy48 TIL a popular medieval sport was trying to head-butt a cat to death with your hands tied behind your back
G7P5 TIL that during the Black Death, many people in Florence participated in orgies and got heavily drunk thinking that it would kill of the disease.
9wep TIL that when Czar Dmitri II of Russia was found to be a Polish impostor, he was shot and cremated. His ashes were promptly shoved in a cannon and fired in the direction of Poland.