Braingle: 'The False Claim' Brain Teaser

The False Claim

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Puzzle ID:	#30366
Fun:	(2.95)
Difficulty:	(2.24)
Category:	Trivia
Submitted By:	chidam11
Corrected By:	Fire_Shell96

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?

Hint

Detective Kelvin Wallace knew his history well.
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Comments

chidam11 May 09, 2006	Hope you like my first Trivia.
jman000 May 09, 2006	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
blagh May 10, 2006	Didn't know quite enough history, but assumed it was something like that
kayleeskitties May 10, 2006	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....
chidam11 May 11, 2006	I cannot even think of that!
a2z210 May 11, 2006	I could have never even got that in my dreams. Great Teaser.
crimsonfx May 11, 2006	Cool.. LouisXIV use a bathtowel 3 times in history? well, that's why perfumes are invented
OldChinaHand May 12, 2006	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.'
fem81uk May 13, 2006	didnt get it but interesting facts
geofreak2010 May 14, 2006	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.
AwwwSweet May 19, 2006	Haha, oh my, well I guess it was a very good thing indeed that he was king!
xdbtcp May 19, 2006	pretty cool.
scr26 May 20, 2006	wats a derrier? can someone tell me!!!!!!!!!!!!
zigthepig May 21, 2006	I also know my history. For sopme reason, I knew this.. but cool job Chidam.
Onslaught May 22, 2006	whewwww glad i didn't live back then.
Starbird May 23, 2006	Answer to Scr26 - derriere is the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on.
PunnettSwears Jun 03, 2006	Very fun and informative.
insanebrain Jun 13, 2006	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 .
insanebrain Jun 13, 2006	To kayleeskitties: Having a mistress (nowadays) means a guy's married, but he's doing it with another woman.
Kalliann Jun 21, 2006	Can you imagine taking only three baths in a LIFETIME!!! EWWW!!.. Good Teaser
kcheer2493 Jul 11, 2006	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
scallio Nov 20, 2006	Loved this! Fabulous teaser! I learned something new today.
phyllisa Mar 22, 2008	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.
lucy_i Mar 22, 2008	LOL thats disgusting but fun
doehead Mar 22, 2008	A fact that I really am not interested in.
bradon182001 Mar 22, 2008	More information than I wanted. Good teaser, though. Thanks for sharing.
sapphireduck Mar 22, 2008	Hey, that's the first one I got right! Great teaser!
avonma Mar 22, 2008	Interesting...and yucky!
FatHead Mar 22, 2008	Amazing! You learn something new every day.
Trishgal Mar 22, 2008	I can't even fathom this.....Interesting thing to learn though. Thx.
_fire_fly Mar 22, 2008	awesome! i got it right away. fun teaser!
auntiesis Mar 22, 2008	Somehow I knew that answer, don't know how, but I got it right.
AuthenticallyMe Mar 22, 2008	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.
Amme Mar 22, 2008	Wow. That is sick and wrong! Funny (but gross) teaser. Thanks for the teaser!
smartymarty Mar 22, 2008	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?
SweetPotato Mar 22, 2008	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.
uhhhh Mar 22, 2008	I thought there weren't towels back then but hey! I learned something at least! Thanks!
stephiesd Mar 22, 2008	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.
chidam11 Mar 23, 2008	Thanks for all the comments guys.
Lassie730 Mar 25, 2008	Never knew King LouisXIV hated baths. Good information.
Meganan Mar 27, 2008	Loved it. Didn't have a clue why it was false. Learned something new. Great job
getoffursausage Sep 15, 2008	I LOVED it!! I actually got it too
bestgirl Mar 23, 2011	Good one. I laughted out loud.
dsjt Mar 23, 2011	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.
MajorAlan Mar 23, 2011	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.
juju1946 Apr 03, 2011	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.