Sport1 min 22 sec
Bizarre Events · 1500s
The Dancing Plague of 1518
In Strasbourg, people danced for days in an outbreak that remains one of history's strangest mass events.
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The strange part—without losing the facts.
In Strasbourg, people danced for days in an outbreak that remains one of history's strangest mass events.
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