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TIL that the entire population of Toulon, France was temporarily evicted in 1543 so that a fleet of the allied Ottomans could winter in the city. 30,000 soldiers spent 8 months there, the cathedral was converted into a mosque, and the king had to pay them 800,000 gold coins before they would leave.

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