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terrpuss

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DID YOU KNOW?
« on: October 12, 2010, 05:31:31 PM »
A tax on beards

Peter the Great tried to pay for his almost perpetual war-making by imposing massive taxes on beards and bee-keeping.
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« Reply #1 on: October 12, 2010, 05:32:12 PM »
Farting Roland

King Henry II kept a court jester named Roland who was required to fart for the amusement of his guests at the annual Christmas Day banquet.
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« Reply #2 on: October 12, 2010, 05:32:54 PM »
A spider sandwich

In the 1830s doctors tried to cure consumption by handing out pills made from cobwebs.  Today, Kentuckians eat spiders on bread and butter as a cure for constipation.
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« Reply #3 on: October 12, 2010, 05:33:30 PM »
Ever the scientist

The childhood hobby of the Russian Czar Ivan the Terrible was throwing live dogs off the Kremlin roof "to observe their pain".
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