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At the Battle of Agincourt, the French threatened to cut off the English longbowmen's first and second fingers (As these are the fingers used to keep the arrow in place), thus permanently disarming them. But when the English won the battle, they waved their fingers defiantly at the enemy and so that's how it started and it sill goes on to this day.

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