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The original was posted on /r/interestingasfuck by /u/Ainsley-Sorsby on 2025-07-31 17:53:09+00:00.

Original Title: Coat of arms Bartolomeo Colleoni, Captain general of Venice in the 15th century. The family’s name sounded like “coglioni”, which means “testicles”, so their coat of arms was 3 pairs of testicles and their battle cry was “coglia, coglia, coglia”. For reasons unknown, they later changed their logo