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Ancient Egyptian priests would shave their entire bodies every other day.
Priests were required to remove all body hair to maintain ritual purity. This practice showed the extreme measures taken for religious cleanliness in ancient Egypt.
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The Tudors believed that rubbing a dead person’s teeth on their gums would prevent toothache.
This macabre dental practice involved rubbing teeth taken from corpses on painful gums. The practice was widespread enough...
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Persian kings would debate important matters twice – once sober and once drunk.
Important decisions were discussed first while sober, then again while intoxicated. If an idea seemed good in both...
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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...