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TIL The Pied Piper Fairy Tale may have been inspired by an actual historical event. Inscription: “on the 26th of June ... 130 children – born in Hamelin – were led out of the town by a piper wearing multicoloured clothes. After passing the Calvary near the Koppenberg they disappeared forever."

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