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TIL in 1184, King Henry VI held a royal assembly in Erfurt, Germany to settle a dispute between nobles. The floor collapsed under their weight, sending ~60 of them plunging through two stories into the latrine cesspit below, where many drowned in human waste. The King survived by sitting in a stone

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