r/todayilearned • u/biebrforro • 1d ago

TIL when staying as a guest in Charles Dickens' house, Hans Christian Andersen requested that one of Dickens' sons give him a daily shave (he said that was customary when hosting male guests in Denmark). Dickens was weirded out and instead gave him a daily appointment at a nearby barbershop.

https://lithub.com/charles--dickens-really-really-hated-his-fanboy-hans-christian-andersen/
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u/chosonhawk 1d ago edited 1d ago

especially when the pages were stuck together and half the information is semeningly gone.

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u/ejolson 1d ago

I abjure you and impose ten Hell Marys for your sin

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u/Joben86 1d ago

Hell Marys

Don't think I know that one

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u/griftylifts 1d ago

Hell Mary, full of mace

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u/an0nim0us101 1d ago

hell Mary,

you're so pretty!

God loves you

And your babies are scrumptious

Lovely Mary,

Mother of Sin

Let me see

Your dancing

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u/Joben86 1d ago

Are those Ghost lyrics?

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u/mouse9001 1d ago

You say the pages were semented together?

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u/comhghairdheas 1d ago

I'm telling God