(#1) How Quickly Meat Rots When Left Out Indicates How Clean The Air Is
From Redditor u/LilSmore:
TIL when the medieval scholar Rhazes was tasked with choosing the location of a new hospital in Baghdad, he hung meat at points around the city, and chose the location where it rotted the slowest.
(#5) Medieval People Entertained Themselves With 'Cat Burning'
From Redditor u/el_muerte28:
TIL about Cat Burning, a form of entertainment in medieval Europe. It involved such "amusement" ranging from putting cats in a bag and throwing them into a bonfire to setting them ablaze and chasing them through the streets.
(#10) An Alternate Use For Mummies
From Redditor u/secure_caramel:
TIL from the 12th to the 17th century in medieval Europe, mummies were eaten as a drug
(#12) Why A Baker's Dozen Is 13
From Redditor u/froyoboyz:
TIL that a bakers dozen is comprised of 13 because in medieval England there were laws that related the price of bread to the price of the wheat used to make it. Bakers caught cheating customers by overpricing undersized loaves were punished. For fear of coming up short, they would throw in extra.
(#15) Medieval Armies Used Plague-Infected Cadavers As Ammo
From Redditor u/WeirdBoy_123:
TIL that in medieval times, corpses of sick people were used as catapult ammunition, as a form of biological weapon.
(#4) The Medieval Era Had Its Own Version Of 'The Purge'
From Redditor u/bort-thrillho:
TIL of the 'Ill Week' - a kind of late medieval version of the Purge. When Elizabeth I died there was a popular belief that the laws of a kingdom were suspended between the death of a sovereign and the proclamation of the successor.
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The Middle Ages is considered to be one of the darkest periods in European history. Frequent wars, the imprisonment of the Catholic Church, the stagnant development of technology and productivity, and diseases are all causes of many problems. But the Middle Ages is also a very interesting historical period, and most people don't know enough about it.
This is a period of relatively slow development in the history of European civilization, and society and minds were accelerating the transformation. In fact, there are many disputes about the Middle Ages. The random tool explains 15 interesting facts about the Middle Ages that most people did not know.
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