Historical Facts #1: Cats

During Pope Gregory IX’s term, he declared that cats were associated with devil worship, resulting in their mass extermination.

Ironically, it is believed that this large-scale expunging of felines helped to spread the Bubonic Plague, which ravaged Europe in the 1300s and killed over a hundred million people. No cats meant the rat population (which carried the plague) ran wild.

Source - https://twentytwowords.com/insanely-creepy-historical-facts-they-never-taught-you-in-school/

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Tyra the turtle 07 01,2021

Maybe we should test if trump supporters are devil worshippers? 2 reply

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Forg 07 01,2021

What a stupid mf reply

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tawin 07 01,2021

nuuu reply

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[DELETED] 07 01,2021

Welcome to another episode of: Humans being fucking idiots and self sabotaging because of their insane religious beliefs reply

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frujtsnacks 07 01,2021

WHAT THE FUCK?!?!?!??! I am with my cats and all four of us are terrified!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 1 reply

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A_very_bored_Humanoid 07 01,2021

I actually learned that in school. My History teacher was da best and we gad to write an essay based on a topic of that era, most chose to write about Shakespeare and theatrical arts, y’know all that jazz. I chose to do the plague. We had to use at least four online sources and one book source. While procrastinating on the assignment god decide...... reply

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毛明悦 07 01,2021

All of the popes have never even cracked open the bible once. Misinterpretation of your own religion + power + 1300s intelligence = horrible mishap inevitably. reply

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