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The Chinese Emperor would have concubines wear perfume made from boiled exotic animals.
Different ranks of concubines were required to wear specific scents made from various animals. This helped the emperor identify their status in the dark. The practice demonstrated the elaborate hierarchy within imperial harems.
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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...