But it was a different story 37 years ago ... and in the process gave us one of the weirdest uniforms in sports history, one brought back to public attention by the Colorado Rapids' April Fools ...

was also very different from the way it's often depicted in fictional media. Here are thirty weird (but true) facts about European life in the Medieval period.

Supposedly based on a true story, the book featured ... that he pitched it to the BBC and in 1972 the story was told on air as part of a factual history series called Chronicle.

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