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Ancient Egyptian servants were smeared with honey to attract flies away from the pharaoh.
This unusual practice was part of the elaborate measures taken to protect and comfort pharaohs. Servants would be coated in honey to act as human fly traps, keeping insects away from the royal person. This demonstrates the extreme social hierarchy and the lengths taken to serve the pharaoh.
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Victorian ladies would drop handkerchiefs as a complex form of flirting.
There was an elaborate code around dropping handkerchiefs, with different methods indicating different messages to potential suitors. This...
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In Victorian England, some people kept small birds in their hair as fashion accessories.
Fashionable ladies would wear small ornamental cages in their hairstyles containing live hummingbirds or other small birds. The...
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Medieval European courts employed professional food tasters who would dress exactly like the king.
These tasters not only tested food for poison but were required to dress identically to the king to...