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

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Wealthy Europeans in the 16th and 17th century routinely ingested medicines that contained human blood, bones, and fat, believing that they could cure all ailments.

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The Romans drove Silphium, a contraceptive herb, to extinction.Silphium became so important to the Cyrenians that they stamped its picture onto their currency. Researchers speculate that the herb was so effective as a birth-control that the Romans used it to the point of driving the plant to extinction. By the end of the era, Silphium had become so rare and prized that it was worth its own weight in silver

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Frankenstein author Mary Shelley kept her dead husband's heart and carried it with her for almost 30 years until she died in 1851. It was found in a desk drawer a year later, wrapped in a copy of one of his final poems.

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In medieval times, animals were put on trial and routinely sentenced to death.

Animals could be put on trial for alleged misdeeds, but they also had the power to take their human captors to court. Livestock, locusts, rodents, flies and any other animals under the sun were liable for prosecution and even excommunication for damaging human property or lives.

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The Romans used crushed mouse brains as toothpaste.If you're looking for the roman toothpaste recipe here it is.

"Ashes head of hare and donkey teeth, mixed with extracts of mouse brain or hare".

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During the Nanking Massacre of 1937-38, soldiers severed the bellies of pregnant women, raped children and infants after cutting them open and even forced family members to rape each other.

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Claudius, the fourth emperor of Roman empire was not a homosexual. And that was considered weird since emperors were supposed to be homosexuals back then

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Félix Faure, one of the French Presidents died while receiving oral sex from his mistress Mme. Marguerite Steinheil.

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Sunandha Kumariratana, the Queen of Thailand, drowned while her subjects watched. They were forbidden to touch her. One of the most tragic facts from history

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Thomas Edison electrocuted an elephant for killing three men.

Of the three, one was a trainer, who burned her with a lit cigar when he was drunk and the other two were keepers who struck her with a pitchfork.

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Albert Einstein married his first cousin. In fact, 80% of marriages in history were between second or closer cousins.

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‘Rampjaar' year or the Disaster year witnessed a shocking spectacle of Dutch citizens attacking and eating their own Prime Minister.

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More than 100 people died of electrocution in France ringing Church bells during thunder and lighting.

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Hungarian soldier shot in the frontal lobe during World War I made him go sleepless for the rest of his life.

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Genghis Khan ordered his army to eat every tenth man to overcome the shortage of food.