Terrifying Details of Life in Royal Palaces That Will Stun You

Unclean Cleaning

This might be the grossest one of all. When the court evacuated, the cleaners used their own urine to clean and sanitize the space. They collected all of their pee in a large bucket and used that to mop the floors. This sounds terrible, but there were far worse jobs to have at the palace...

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The More You Know

  • There's a word for tapping someone on the opposite shoulder from behind to fool them.
  • The idea that a man should spend two months salary on an engagement ring was popularized by De Beers' ad agency.
  • Penguins spend approximately 75% of their life in the water.
  • The stars and flashes of light you see when you rub your eyes are called "phosphenes."
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