In fifteen eighteen, a dancing plague struck Strasbourg.
Why it is true
Hundreds of people began dancing uncontrollably for days or weeks. Many eventually died of exhaustion, heart attack, or stroke, in a phenomenon of collective hysteria.
Source: History Today
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