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If you could go back in time and watch -- but not change or interact with -- one historical event, what would it be? (lemmy.sdf.org)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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For the sake of the argument, you get to arrive up to 24 hours before the event starts and leave up to 24 hours after it ends.

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago

Tough to choose, but I think it would be interesting to see what the heck was going on with the dancing plague of 1518.