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TIL Dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire in 1806 was widely compared to the ancient and legendary Fall of Troy in Germany with many believing it as start of end times and the apocalypse. Commoners went as far as to believe that news of its dissolution was a plot by their local authorities.

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