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TIL it's a tradition in Dawson City to drink a shot with a real (dead) human toe in it

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GRwN TIL King John of Bohemia was blind, and fought and eventually died in battle where he apparently just flailed his sword around like a mad man. He was reported to have said. “Let it never be the case that a Bohemian king runs [from a fight]!”
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