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[–]OuroborosTheory 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

"Seeking a counterweight to janissary influence, Osman II closed their coffee shops"

or the Mongols' habit of not ever spilling noble blood in executions (so they rolled them in a rug and had horses run over them instead)