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461: No Such Thing as the Milkmaid's Tale

No Such Thing As A Fish

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Do Goats Urinate on Their Heads?

The ancient Romans were said to have used a thing called tickle torture. The idea was that you would get someone, you would soak their feet in saltwater and then the salt would be licked by a thirsty ghost. This was a sort of myth that's been in books for a long time. So apparently, if a goat licks your feet, because they have really rough tongues, the torture. And because they're so thirsty, and the salt makes them thirsty, or they keep licking, and then they rip your feet off,. That would be a method of torture back in. Rip your feet off. Their tongues aren't made of tears. No, sorry. They would slowly

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