How married couples used to settle disputes.

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00:00Today I learned of the terrifying way married couples used to settle disputes called marital

00:05duels. In medieval Germany, if a husband and wife couldn't resolve their differences peacefully,

00:10they could settle the dispute with a legal duel. But there were rules to make it an even playing

00:15field, and the outcomes were terrifying. The husband could only use one arm and would be

00:19placed in a hole waist deep. The wife, on the other hand, had a bag full of rocks and would

00:24wear weighted clothing to slow her down. The duel ended when one was incapacitated or surrendered,

00:29but if you lost, that was the end of you. If the husband lost, he would get beheaded,

00:34and if the wife lost, she would get buried alive.