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How Medieval Torture Devices Worked

Stuff You Missed in History Class

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What Is the Rack?

A doctor at the Beverly Hills Physical Medicine Center who has reinvented the rack. Not to torture people but actually to help them. The concept is you lie down and the stretching creates a vacuum between the vertebrae and your back so that whatever disc may be herniated or giving you grief actually gets sucked back into place. But I don't think the flutes will actually work. Why don't you climb inside and show me. And as you might expect Pharrellis closed the door behind him and the inventor ends up being the first victim to this brazen bull. Was it a success? Yes he died. In fact you call that a success. Yeah so check to that one.

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