Nel’s Reviews > Batavia's Graveyard: The True Story of the Mad Heretic Who Led History's Bloodiest Mutiny > Status Update
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One captain was so maddened by the plague of scuttling vermin on board his ship that he offered his sailors a tot of brandy for every thousand cockroaches they killed. Within days, the crushed bodies of 38,250 insects had been presented for his inspection.
meanwhile me who needs a therapy when i see just one...
— Nov 19, 2025 11:20PM
meanwhile me who needs a therapy when i see just one...
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...for a month or more before the birth, as was common at the time, her husband had paid an old woman to suckle his wife’s breasts in order to stimulate the flow of milk.
history is filled with the weirdest crap
— Nov 19, 2025 08:11AM
history is filled with the weirdest crap
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Jeronimus Cornelisz
if i had a bad guy in my story, this would be his name.
— Nov 18, 2025 09:45AM
if i had a bad guy in my story, this would be his name.
