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TIL Between the 13th and 18th Centuries it was common to have criminal trials with animal defendants. Animals on trial were most often pigs, bulls, horses, and cows or pests such as rats and weevils. They were routinely provided with lawyers and if convicted animals were executed or exiled.

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