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TIL Male to female anal sex was illegal in renaissance Florence. In 1510, in an attempt to damage N.Machiavelli's rising career as a bureaucrat, someone filed an anonymus report, which was posted publicly: "N.Machiavelli is fucking Lucretia, known as Riccia, in the ass". The charge was dropped

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