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Ancient Egyptian priests had to remove all their body hair every three days.
Priests were required to pluck out all their body hair, including eyebrows and eyelashes, as part of their purification rituals. This practice demonstrated the extreme measures taken for religious purity in ancient Egypt.
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Victorian ladies would paint their faces with arsenic to appear pale.
Arsenic wafers were eaten or made into face cream to achieve a fashionable pale complexion. This deadly practice...
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In ancient Egypt, servants would be covered in honey to act as human fly catchers.
To keep flies away from important people, servants would be coated in honey. The sticky substance would attract...
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In ancient China, cricket fighting was so popular that specialized cricket referees existed.
Professional cricket-fighting referees would oversee matches between prized fighting crickets. These insects were kept in special ceramic jars...