15 Messed Up Facts About History We Weren't Taught At School.

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Genghis Khan killed about 40 million people. That meant removal of 700 million tons of carbon from the earth's atmosphere. Probably one of the first facts from history on environmental change.

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Romans considered urine as âÂ€Â˜liquid gold'. Washed their mouths to fight bad breath and to whiten their teeth.

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3.Christopher Columbus ran a sex slave ring with pre-pubescent Native American girls.

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Princess Olga of Kiev buried her matchmakers alive, slaughtered 5000 people during a feast and was named as a Saint by the Christian Orthodox Church.

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Charles II of England cheered for his nephew on his wedding night and even witnessed the entire consummation.

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Peter the Great beheaded his wife's lover, then forced her to keep his head in a jar of alcohol in their bedroom.

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There was a Serial Killer in the US that had a $100,000 homemade torture chamber in a mobile home he called his "toy box". Just like the "SAW" movies, he recorded himself talking to the victims explaining in detail what was going to happen to them.

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Ludi Meridiani or Midday spectacles (dramas) used condemned prisoners and prisoners of war for real executions within the play.

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In WWII, Russians strapped dogs with explosives and trained them to run under tanks and blow them up.

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Vibrators were invented by 19th-century doctors whose hands got sore while treating "hysteria" in women.

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Merkin, a pubic wig was worn by women in 1450s

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15th-century Romanian ruler Vlad III Dracula impaled 20,000 Turkish soldiers on sharp spikes, enjoyed dining in his "forest" of corpses and even dipped his bread in the blood of his enemies.

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Nazi scientist Josef Rudolf Mengele carried out sick experiments in his lifetime: He tried to turn the eyes of Jewish children blue, infected deliberately inflicted wounds with Mustard gas and even sewed a set of twins together.

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In 1958, the government funded an experiment to determine whether or not dolphins could speak. This later escalated to the female researcher giving the dolphin handjobs and then later taking LSD with the dolphin.

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It was common for 19th-century Victorian men to fashion clippings of their lover's pubic hair into jewelry and wear them as hat ornaments or souvenirs.

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