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During the current pandemic, people are probably more likely to fart in
order to hide a cough when in public, than they are to cough in order to
mask the sound of a fart. However, throughout most of history and across
many cultures, farting in public has been surrounded by various levels
of taboo, with consequences to the cheese cutter ranging from ridicule
to loss of social status to violent beat downs. However, few public
farts have had consequences as dire as one weird and memorable instance
of flatulence in 44 AD, which led to the death of about 10,000 people.
HistoryrCOs deadliest fart was let go around the time of Passover in 44
AD, in Jerusalem, not long after the death of King Herod Agrippa. As
thousands of Jews gathered to partake in the Passover feast and
festivities, a Roman soldier stationed above the temple turned around,
bared his butt, mooned the crowd, and cut a fart.
Understandably, the religious crowd below did not take kindly to the blasphemous insult in the temple. Rioting broke out, and the Romans
rushed in soldiers to quell the disturbances. Things escalated, and by
the time the dust settled, about 10,000 people lay dead rCo all because of
a chain of events that started with a fart.
https://historycollection.com/the-fart-that-killed-10000-people-and-other-weird-moments-from-history/
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