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Ancient Spartans would punish bachelors by making them walk naked through the marketplace in winter.
Unmarried men past a certain age were required to walk naked through the agora during winter while singing songs about their shame. This public humiliation was designed to encourage marriage and maintain population levels in Spartan society.
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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...