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ngl9 TIL Vlad the Impaler once asked a noble man if the smell of the impaled corpses bothered him. The man said yes, so Vlad had him impaled on a higher stake to the ‘smell wouldn’t bother him’.
lRb1 TIL that Vlad the Impaler would demonstrate his control through fear by placing a golden cup in a poverty stricken area because he knew no-one would dare steal it.