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In ancient Sparta, marriage ceremonies included ritual bride kidnapping.
The bride would be kidnapped as part of the wedding ceremony, and the marriage was consummated before she had her head ritually shaved and was dressed in male clothing. This practice combined multiple symbolic elements of Spartan culture.
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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...