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The False Claim
Sunday had finally come for Detective Kelvin Wallace. It was the day of the auction. He was an avid collector of antique items. He was looking for something from the collection of a king, especially Louis XIV, as he did not have any of his items.
Finally, the collection of King Louis XIV came up for auction. The first item was a bathing towel which was supposedly used every day by King Louis XIV. Everyone was eager to get his hands on the old torn piece of cloth, but Detective Wallace knew that it was a fake piece and decided to leave the auction hall immediately.
How did he know that the towel was fake?
Finally, the collection of King Louis XIV came up for auction. The first item was a bathing towel which was supposedly used every day by King Louis XIV. Everyone was eager to get his hands on the old torn piece of cloth, but Detective Wallace knew that it was a fake piece and decided to leave the auction hall immediately.
How did he know that the towel was fake?
Hint
Detective Kelvin Wallace knew his history well.Answer
Detective Wallace knew it was a fake because there was no possibility of the king using the cloth every day. King Louis XIV only took three baths in his life of 77 years, and he desired none of them.The three times were:
1.When he was baptized.
2.When a mistress insisted.
3.When a doctor lanced a boil on his derriere and ordered him to soak in a tub filled with water.
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Hope you like my first Trivia.
Man i love this one, i thought at first that they didnt have towls back then, but they do and he must have stunk, badly if he didnt take a bath for 77 years!! only 3 doestn cut it. lol
Didn't know quite enough history, but assumed it was something like that
First: GREAT teaser! I thought maybe it had something to do with no towels or something.....GREAT! Going to my faves
Secondly: EWWWWW!!!! 3 times?!?! Ewwwwww!!!!! He actually HAD a mistress? Doesn't that mean he had a wife? Smelling like THAT?!?! EWWWWW....
Secondly: EWWWWW!!!! 3 times?!?! Ewwwwww!!!!! He actually HAD a mistress? Doesn't that mean he had a wife? Smelling like THAT?!?! EWWWWW....
I cannot even think of that!
I could have never even got that in my dreams. Great Teaser.
Cool.. LouisXIV use a bathtowel 3 times in history? well, that's why perfumes are invented
I knew bathing wasn't popular, in fact it was considered unhealthy, probably justly so all thing considered...but he would have been sprinkled not submerged when he was baptized. Good One. 'We were most amused.'
didnt get it but interesting facts
I got it pretty easily because i remembered that Queen Elizabeth I prided herself because she took only a single-digit number of baths in her lifetime. It is still pretty disgustinging when you think about it. Also, babies aren't only sprinkled when baptized, their heads are partially submerged today, but i guess you don't really know how they did it back then.
Haha, oh my, well I guess it was a very good thing indeed that he was king!
pretty cool.
wats a derrier? can someone tell me!!!!!!!!!!!!
I also know my history. For sopme reason, I knew this.. but cool job Chidam.
whewwww glad i didn't live back then.
Answer to Scr26 - derriere is the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on.
Very fun and informative.
Easy.Back then people didn't bathe often.The reason perfumes were invented, but that didn't stop them from contracting illnesses.Also, I think King Louis XIV only took several baths in his lifetime.When I was in 4th, 5th, and half of 6th grade I was obessed with the 15th and 16th centuries, stuff like that, so don't think I cheated.Insane out .
To kayleeskitties: Having a mistress (nowadays) means a guy's married, but he's doing it with another woman.
Can you imagine taking only three baths in a LIFETIME!!! EWWW!!.. Good Teaser
yuck!
Great teser though. After I read the hint I googled King Louis XIV, but still couldn't find anything that would answer the brain teaser!
Thanks
Great teser though. After I read the hint I googled King Louis XIV, but still couldn't find anything that would answer the brain teaser!
Thanks
Loved this! Fabulous teaser! I learned something new today.
I knew it had to do with very little bathing, but only 3???
BTW about baptizing, some churches sprinkle water, some churches totally submerge, some pour on the forehead, it depends on the church denomination.
BTW about baptizing, some churches sprinkle water, some churches totally submerge, some pour on the forehead, it depends on the church denomination.
LOL thats disgusting but fun
A fact that I really am not interested in.
More information than I wanted. Good teaser, though. Thanks for sharing.
Hey, that's the first one I got right! Great teaser!
Interesting...and yucky!
Amazing! You learn something new every day.
I can't even fathom this.....Interesting thing to learn though. Thx.
awesome! i got it right away. fun teaser!
Somehow I knew that answer, don't know how, but I got it right.
Awesome teaser. Knew the answer right away b/c of my World History class: we'd talked about how people didn't take baths very often but instead sprayed themselves with perfume to hide their smell...
And augustrush8, this is a TRIVIA teaser...meaning that it involves personal trivia/knowledge to correctly answer the riddle.
And augustrush8, this is a TRIVIA teaser...meaning that it involves personal trivia/knowledge to correctly answer the riddle.
Wow.
That is sick and wrong!
Funny (but gross) teaser.
Thanks for the teaser!
That is sick and wrong!
Funny (but gross) teaser.
Thanks for the teaser!
I was taught that you're means you are, and your means it belongs to you. Frequently people use your when they mean you're. Have they changed that over the years or are these people stupid?
Bathing? So easy even a Caveman can do it. What's up wid Looie?
Hey smartymarty ... those people aren't stupid ... just ignorant (uneducated) or careless. Be polite.
Hey smartymarty ... those people aren't stupid ... just ignorant (uneducated) or careless. Be polite.
I thought there weren't towels back then but hey! I learned something at least! Thanks!
Well, I kind of got it right. I remember learning that Queen Elizabeth only took 2 baths in her entire life, and that bathing wasn't that common back in the day. So I *assumed* the same concept applies.
Thanks for all the comments guys.
Never knew King LouisXIV
hated baths.
Good information.
Loved it. Didn't have a clue why it was false. Learned something new. Great job
I LOVED it!! I actually got it too
Good one. I laughted out loud.
I got this one because I knew about the not taking baths thing.
However, just because the auctioneer may have gotten the description of the item wrong does not necessarily mean that the towel did not in fact belong to King Louis XIV. He may have use the towel every day. Or maybe just once a week. He just did not use it for bathing.
However, just because the auctioneer may have gotten the description of the item wrong does not necessarily mean that the towel did not in fact belong to King Louis XIV. He may have use the towel every day. Or maybe just once a week. He just did not use it for bathing.
It wasn't that Louis hated baths, it was that bathing was considered unhealthy as it stripped away oils. The romans used to cover themselves in oil and have it scraped off to get clean. They used their famous baths as social centers, after all, it's better to talk to someone you know is not carrying a weapon. Also, manu people of that time actually found a strong body odor sexually attractive. Napoleon reportedly sent Josephine a note saying he would be home in 2 weeks and she should STOP bathing in preperation for his homecoming.
Yes, Major Allen is right. Sensibilities are different nowadays. We wash away all the smells that give us correct sexual signals, and then wonder why we are really so sexually inept.
My dermaltologists says that humans bathe much too often. Two worst things to put on your body are soap and water and the combination of both damages your skin. Maybe back then they knew more than we do now and had other ways to keep clean. OH, don't ask!! Of course I bathe.
I've heard of dirty old men, but he took it to the extreme.
I got the answer that they did not bathe every day back then but did not know he only bathed 3 times.
Ya either know it or ya don't, I didn't.
I had heard this one before. Good one.
Enjoyed the readers' comments as much as the teaser-the friendly ones, anyway!
Now that's funny!
We romanticize the "good old days". I find them primitive and rather repulsive. I like our modern world.
Cool facts
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