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Stranger Than the Textbooks: 300 Weird but True History Stories from East and West

A lawyer for rats. A tax on beards. A 3,750-year-old complaint letter. Every story sourced.

(Written with AI help, fact-checked.)
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In 1392, the king of France fell ill — and later became convinced his body was made of glass. He wouldn't let anyone touch him. 🧵

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Gill Speak calls Charles possibly the first recorded case of the "glass delusion", which kept recurring in Europe for two centuries. Source: Britannica; Speak, History of Psychiatry (1990) #history

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A Chinese emperor loved gardening so much that his agents slapped yellow seals on people's prize rocks and trees, making them imperial property on the spot. It helped bring down his empire. 🧵

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Emperor Huizong named it "Divinely Transported Rock of Glorious Merit." Then Fang La rebelled (1120) shouting "Kill Zhu Mian." The Jin invaded, Huizong abdicated, and Kaifeng fell in 1127. Source: Song shi (History of Song), ch. 470 & 23 #history

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In 480 BC, Persia's king Xerxes punished the sea. He had it whipped. 🧵

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Then he beheaded the engineers who built the bridges. New, sturdier ones went up and the army crossed. Herodotus may have embellished, but it's the classic case of arguing with geography. Source: Herodotus, Histories 7.34-35 #history

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The Ming emperor found being emperor boring, so he promoted himself to general. Then he wrote his own promotion order. 🧵

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Zhu Shou was the emperor himself: he gave himself the title Duke Who Guards the State and 5,000 shi of grain a year. In 1520 his boat capsized while fishing; he never recovered and died at 31.
Source: Ming shi, ch. 16 (History of Ming) #history

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In AD 81, Rome's new emperor Domitian found an odd way to spend his private time: shutting himself away for hours to catch flies and stab them. 🧵

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A joke that could get you killed: Domitian grew ever more suspicious and murderous, and was stabbed to death in a palace plot in AD 96. Source: Suetonius, Life of Domitian 3 #history