The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/Tom_Bradys_Butt_Chin on 2025-01-20 20:13:58.

Original Title: TIL that “court jesters” were often used to give bad news to the monarch that no one else would dare deliver. When the French fleet was destroyed at the Battle of Sluys, Phillip VI’s jester told him that the English sailors “don’t even have the guts to jump into the water like our brave French”