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TIL Pope Pius II sent an angry letter to Cardinal Rodrigo Borgia (Pope Alexander VI) rebuking him after word spread that he held a 5 hour orgy at a child's baptism. Pius wrote "In order to have more freedom for your amusements you forbade entry to the husbands, fathers, brothers, and relations.."

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