Morbid Fact Du Jour For February 24, 2011
February 24th, 2011
Today’s Conducive To Insomnia Yet Truly Morbid Fact!
In 1700′s England, different prisons used different methods of restraint. In Ely Gaol in Norfolk, England, felons were pinned to the floor by iron bars which were chained to staples, and in Worcester Castle the sleeping arrangements were similarly conducive to insomnia, its inmates being chained together at night, the chain passing through their fetters and its ends then padlocked to rings set in the floor.
Culled from: Rack, Rope and Red-Hot Pincers
Do you think this might help my insomnia? :p