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that Ibrahim the Mad, sultan of the Ottoman Empire, was obsessed with large ladies and ordered his officers to search far and wide for the fattest women in the land to add to his harem

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Fun Fact: that Ibrahim the Mad, sultan of the Ottoman Empire, was obsessed with large ladies and ordered his officers to search far and wide for the fattest women in the land to add to his harem

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