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The Aztecs used chocolate as currency.
Cacao beans were so valuable that they were used as money throughout the Aztec empire. A turkey could be purchased for 100 cacao beans, and counterfeit beans made from clay were a common problem. This practice shows how everyday items can become currency.
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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...