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The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/TriviaDuchess on 2025-02-16 01:00:10.

Original Title: TIL that King Louis IX was captured and imprisoned for six weeks in Egypt in 1250 during the Seventh Crusade. He was ransomed for the equivalent of one-third of France’s GDP, while nearly all of his army was massacred. 20 years later, he died in Tunisia while on another crusade.

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