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TIL of the Bal des Ardents, a masquerade ball in which the king and some noble dancers dressed in wild man costumes and accidentally got set on fire by the king's drunk brother. The only dancers who survived are one who jumped into a washtub and the king, after a duchess threw her skirt over him.

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