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awY7M TIL that panic buying during a pandemic is not new; during the Black Plague a physician in Vienna stated, ‘When the plague broke out, people gorged themselves with such amounts of angelica root that later nobody was able to purchase any, not even for considerable sums of money’.
D1DRp TIL of Maria Theresa, Queen of Austria and mother of 16 children, 5 of whom also became royalty.