In 1386, a pig in France was executed by public hanging for the murder of a child.
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Cherophobia is a fear of fun.
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There's a knife-fork hybrid called a knork.
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During the Black Plague, it was thought that bad smells were the cause of the plague. "Plague Doctors" therefore wore masks with long beak-like noses stuffed with flowers or smoke to hide the smells.
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The widow of the inventor of the Winchester rifle built a house with mazes and dead-end staircases to confuse the ghosts of the people who were killed by her husband's rifles.
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