Victorians used to eat arsenic to meliorate their skin colour .
History is weird, y’all.
So, I decided to compile 15 of my favourite random history facts. Enjoy!
1.Technically, the first President of the United States wasnotGeorge Washington.
2.No women competed inthe first modern Olympics, and only 22 women competed in the second Olympics.
3.Victoriansate arsenicto make their complexion paler.
4.In the Roman Empire, gladiator blood was used totreat epilepsy.
5.The “it”-girl of 17th century Rotterdam wasa rhinoceros named Clara.
6.Charles Dickens and Arthur Conan Doyle were both in the same paranormal investigation society called “The Ghost Club.”
7.Oh, and Arthur Conan Doyle’s belief in ghosts caused him to fall out with Harry Houdini.
8.TheUnited States governmenttried to induce rain by bombing clouds.
9.In the Wild West, frontiersmen were so sex-starved thatthey’d wait in linejust to see a pair of women’s underwear.
10.Oh, and speaking of underwear, women in the Swiss Army had to wear men’s underwearuntil 2021.
11.In the 1920s, there was a bizzarre fad called “pole sitting” where people would climb flagpoles and sit on top of them for extended periods of time.
12.There’s a 2,400-year-old shipwreck at the bottom of the black sea, andit’s virtually intact.
13.Mummies used to smellreally nice.
14.In the 19th century,tomato ketchupwas marketed as a medicine.
15.Socrates thought that the written word would make people stupid.
You, after reading (sorry, Socrates) this list:
