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TIL For over five hundred years the Russians wondered what kind of people their Arctic and sub-Arctic subjects were. "They have mouths between their shoulders and eyes in their chests," reported a fifteenth-century tale

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a87Go TIL a castle built over 800 years ago was briefly occupied by medieval crusaders. A latrine containing 30 years worth of castle excrement revealed that the folks there were malnourished & infested with worms. The worms associated with eating unwashed vegetables fertilized with human feces
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