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The strange reasons medieval people slept in cupboards (www.bbc.com)

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Ancient technology, but not so different from modern capsule hotels 😅

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[–] spittingimage@lemmy.world 8 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I wonder how bad it got if dinner included cabbage.

[–] perestroika@slrpnk.net 6 points 8 months ago

During the Little Ice Age, cabbage and kale were among the plants that kept farming from collapse (they don't fail like the ordinary crops when snow arrives in summer)...

...so dinner almost certainly did include something of the sort. :)