Episode 457: The Black Death Part II - Passport to Hell
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The Power of Rats in the Middle Ages
A black rat can jump three feet from a standing position Positioned leap three feet. Rats also thrive on dead animals and there was no shortage of death in medieval cities even before the plague Dog catchers were more dog killers and they left copious amounts of stray corpses to rot on the street and feed the rats. The shanty walls of the medieval world were made of a loose plaster like so they were kind of made Shittily it was very similar to plaster Paris.
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