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TIL in a private letter from 1521, Niccolo Machiavelli describes reading his mail in the toilet seat. Stuck on a boring work trip, he proceeds to ask his pen pal to send him fat folders stuffed with papers and make the mailman run, to prank the nosey monks who tried to pry at his letters

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