5.10.05
in istanbul
- more turkey trivia
didja know?
In 1442, a young Vlad the Impaler was a hostage to the Sultan in Istanbul for a couple of years, where he supposedly picked up many cruel torture techniques. This Vlad is the same as Vlad Dracula, from whom the more popular legend of vampires took offdateline
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