Since it's apparently #WorldToiletDay: Contrary to popular myth, the palace of Versailles did have toilets and bathrooms. At the time, bathrooms were luxury rooms dedicated to bathing, while toilet facilities were kept in separate spaces. (contd)

Chastity belts. Iron Maidens. 1,000 years without a bath. What we think we know about Medieval Europe is actually more fiction than fact. Debunk the 6 most common myths about the Middle Ages: t.ted.com/67zmaJa

The Elviña hillfort (A Coruña, #Galicia) was the possible capital of the Artabri, one of the most quoted people of Western Iberia in the classical sources. Astoninshingly, most of the buildings unearthed were not domestic, but public or sacred ones. #hillfortswednesday

No, Marie Antoinette didn't have lice & other myths about historic hygie... youtu.be/s2ALFBiMHV8?si… via YouTube

So this isn't true. Medieval Europeans did bathe and wash themselves fairly regularly. Was it as frequent as it is for modern people? No. There wasn't the infrastructure for that. But, there were a lot of public bathouses, and we have many depictions of Europeans bathing. 1/3

MYTH BUSTED! Everyone Was Dirty & No One Washed "Back Then" (Ft. Historian Hilary Davidson) youtube.com/watch?v=EZGxuN…

'Baths of Bliss in the Middle Ages: Fact and Fiction', lecture by Professor Elizabeth Archibald: youtu.be/bTh2O5jYmFY?si…

Lecture by Emeritus University Professor Carole Rawcliffe titled 'Less Mudslinging and More Facts: A New Approach to Public Health in Late Medieval English Towns'. The sound is bad but it's still worth watching. youtu.be/eSCVqfzIHB8?si…

Lecture | Genetic History of Europe Adaptation and Migration in Prehistory | Johannes Krause youtu.be/mWTVx3Cx6Zc?si…

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Convincing video about that old myth about Louis XIV bathing only twice in his life: youtu.be/TjOBtUGm3Io?si… via YouTube

Dr. Roy Casagranda saying something that's actually true:

Because some people seem to mixing up the meaning of these words:

Is there anything more pathetic as someone being proven wrong and made to look foolish but acting so childish & rude, being a troll, so gets blocked and then goes around being annoying in your discussions with other people? It's like dealing with a teenage stalker.

The word that terrifies liars and the ignorant the most:

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