Today I Found Out
Were Iron Maidens Ever Actually Used? (2020x11)
Air date: Jan 16, 2020
Get your first audiobook and two Audible Originals for free when you try Audib→→Subscribe for new videos every day!
https://www.youtube.com/user/TodayIFoundOut?sub_confirmation=1
Follow Simon on social media:
https://twitter.com/SimonWhistler
https://www.instagram.com/simonwhistler/
Never run out of things to say at the water cooler with TodayIFoundOut! Brand new videos 7 days a week!
More from TodayIFoundOut:
Has Any Passenger Ever Landed a Commercial Airliner and How Likely is it You Could?
https://youtu.be/bP_XPLFEMng
Can Police Really Commandeer Your Vehicle Like in the Movies?
https://youtu.be/eQC8IxoNAkg
In this video:
The people of the Middle Ages have a reputation for wanton brutality and, as supposed evidence of this, countless instruments of torture sit in museums around the world, arguably the most famous of which being the Iron Maiden.
Want the text version?: http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2020/01/were-iron-maidens-ever-actually-used/
Sources:
https://creators.vice.com/en_uk/article/vvy8v3/the-middle-ages-darkest-tech-was-invented-by-victorian-con-men
http://www.newadvent.org/fathers/120101.htm
http://www.newadvent.org/fathers/0323.htm
https://books.google.com/books?id=3xayDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA116&lpg=PA116&dq=wretched+delinquent+was+gratuitously+framed+in+oak,+his+head+being+thrust+through+a+hole+cut+in+one+end+of+a+barrel,+the+other+end+of+which+had+been+removed,+and+the+poor+fellow+loafed+about+in+the+most+disconsolate+manner,+looking+for+all+the+world+like+a+half-hatched+chicken.&source=bl&ots=DC6IFxWLLO&sig=ACfU3U0sHykoRE8HnSD6XzM4lBuUtIt-BA&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwicpoXp9_LmAhUIsJ4KHV1gDr0Q6AEwAXoECB8QAQ#v=onepage&q=wretched%20delinquent%20was%20gratuitously%20framed%20in%20oak%2C%20his%20head%20being%20thrust%20through%20a%20hole%20cut%20in%20one%20end%20of%20a%20barrel%2C%20the%20other%20end%20of%20which%20had%20been%20removed%2C%20and%20the%20poor%20fellow%20loafed%20about%20in%20the%20most%20disconsolate%2
- Premiered: Oct 2013
- Episodes: 2344
- Followers: 1