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That Time Europeans Went Nuts For Dancing

Ridiculous History

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The Dancing Plague

The most famous of these incidents of dancing plagues happened in 1518. The physicians, contemporary medical experts at the time didn't know what on earth was happening. So they blamed the issue on hot blood. "They got hot blood. They just drank hot blood"

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