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TIL that Vlad the Impaler stopped payment of tributes to the Turks. Turkish ambassadors went to Vlad, demanding immediate payment. Vlad, hearing that they were not prepared to remove their turbans as a mark of respect while in his presence, had the turbans nailed to their heads.

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