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TIL : A merchant was sentenced to face a lion in the arena when he was caught selling fake jewels to the Empress, when the cage opened however a chicken walked out, the Emperor then proclaimed that “He practiced deceit and then had it practiced on him”.The merchant was allowed to go home then.

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