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210: No Such Thing As A Sheep's Bedside Table

No Such Thing As A Fish

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How Did Leuis Borrow 75 People?

The king's official doctors were very sniffy about surgery. The thought it was like basically blood letting and nothing else. So he borrowed 75 people to practise on for six months before going through with the procedure. He didn't really want to go through with it right, because a lot of people died havin' it. But famously, louis the fourteenth never bathed. And as an adult, he only bathed two times in his life - childhood is out.

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