Terrifying Details of Life in Royal Palaces That Will Stun You

Gong Scourers

Most likely, being one of the king's gong scourers was the worst job you could receive on the palace grounds. All human waste was directed to an underground hole in an effort to keep the castle as clean as possible for the time. This is where the gong scourers came in, though unhappily...

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