Thursday, September 4, 2008
Random Fact
Spiral staircases in medieval castles are running clockwise. This is because all knights used to be right-handed. When the intruding army would climb the stairs they would not be able to use their right hand which was holding the sword because of the difficulties of climbing the stairs. Left-handed knights would have had no troubles, except left-handed people could never become knights because it was assumed that they were descendants of the devil.
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Seriously... where do you find this stuff??
I had a list of them from way back when. So I decided to share all the useless information so I could throw the papers away. :)
Amazing. Simply amazing. And educational. So thank you for sharing. :o)
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