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TIL that before haunted houses, 16th-century elites hosted “black or hell banquets.” Dating to ancient Rome, Emperor Domitian hosted a banquet where guests were assigned a seat with a personalized gravestone. The menu consisted of food usually offered as sacrifices for the departed.

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