The myth that Catherine the Great died having sex with a horse, debunked
by Ellsworth Toohey from Boing Boing on (#76PXJ)
Catherine the Great, who modernized Russia during her reign, took about 22 lovers over her lifetime - enough to fuel a legend that outlived her by centuries: that she died attempting intercourse with a horse, crushed when the harness suspending the animal above her snapped. - Read the rest
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