This is a great informative thread of random history knowledge! It covers everything from Viking finances, to Vlad the Impaler to Genghis Khan reversing climate change, and more:
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The King James one is wrong. It was King Louis XIV and even that wasn’t the thing that changed the way women gave birth. https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/king-louis-xiv-fetish-birth/
Makes me doubt the rest of them…
the raphael one was wrong too. he died from fever, possibly caused by pneumonia. his death was hastened by his doctor incorrectly using the practice of bloodletting and weakening his body.
Where’s the wacky romantic comedy about Radu and Mehmet? I want to see that.
The Dr. Kellogg one gets more morbid. He also advocated for the use of acid on the clitoris and was the one who started the modern version of circumcision, removing the entire foreskin. All to curtail masturbation.