Terrifying Details of Life in Royal Palaces That Will Stun You

Toilet Hole

Toilets back then were not what we know today. Instead of a porcelain throne, it's more likely that you would sit on a bench with a hole in the middle of it. The waste from the bench would either fall into a hole or farther down into a moat that surrounded a castle. Don't fall into that river...

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