Tablecloths were originally meant to be served as towels with which dinner guests could wipe their hands and faces after eating!
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One punishment for an adulterous wife in medieval France was to make her chase a chicken through town naked.
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The G in 'g-string' stand for groin.
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The little bags of netting for gas lanterns (called 'mantles') are radioactive...so much so that they will set of an alarm at a nuclear reactor.
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