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Frederick II famously caused the death of a bunch of babies by trying to raise them without any human interaction, trying to find out what kind of natural language they would develop. Killing innocents being a mortal sin, what kind of consequences did the Emperor face for his misguided experiment?

by /u/fan_of_the_pikachu in /r/AskHistorians

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