Terrifying Details of Life in Royal Palaces That Will Stun You

Worldwide Stench

If you thought the King smelled bad, just imagine the servants. Almost no one back then bathed throughout their entire lives. Why would they? They had no running water, slept in dirty rooms, and had difficulty finding clean water. It's amazing anyone even attempted it...

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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The More You Know

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  • In 1923, jockey Frank Hayes won a race at Belmont Park in New York despite being dead — he suffered a heart attack mid-race but his body stayed in the saddle until his horse crossed the line for a 20–1 outsider victory.
  • The glow around the moon is called a "broch."
  • The average golf ball has 336 dimples.
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Post originally appeared on Upbeat News.