TIL During Japan's Edo period (1603-1868), upper-class women sometimes hired female attendants called "Heoibikuni" (or "fart-bearing nuns") to take blame for their flatulence.

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TIL During Japan's Edo period (1603-1868), upper-class women sometimes hired female attendants called "Heoibikuni" (or "fart-bearing nuns") to take blame for their flatulence.

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Today I Learned (TIL)English · 3 months ago

History’s worst job? Japanese noblewomen used to hire servants to take the blame for their farts

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What would be the ultimate luxury in personal service for a highborn aristocrat? Someone to draw your bath? Peel your grapes? Fan you with palm fronds? How about a servant whose job it is to take the blame for your farts.

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