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Historical Sex Toys, Killer Trains, Charles Fricken Dickens

The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week

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Hildegard Von Bingen and the Dildo Machine

This machine is allegedly something that the Spanish Inquisition like targeted as a machine of the devil, but there are also machines there that were used for torture. So yeah, it reminds me of the episode where Claire talked about the treadmill because the treadmill was originally invented as a torture device. Yeah, I want to know that people had fun with this particular dildo machine. Thank you so much for that fascinating fact. One that I am desperate to know more about. Okay, now we have another weird fact.

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