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History isn’t just about heroic battles, grand adventures, moving speeches, scientific inventions, and social progress. For good and for ill, people are very complicated and nuanced beings… with a dash of depravity and lust thrown in. Human history is full of truly shocking, dark, and terrifying events, but some books skim over the more disturbing details.
The r/AskReddit community recently shared some pieces of history that would even make many adults do a double-take. Scroll down to have a read.
But be warned, some of these historical facts are definitely not for the faint of heart, while others might make you feel very uncomfortable.

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30 Terrifying And Weird History Facts You Might Not Know, Meant For Adults The Battle of Blair Mountain. Coal miners wanted to unionize and mine owners wanted more money. A million rounds of ammunition were fired and the National Guard had to intervene.

That's a shamefully short summary of it, but it was literally a war for labor rights.

To quote Robert Evans on Behind the Bastards (Part 1 on YouTube [here](https://youtu.be/XWvVdjmBhHc?si=ekzrYcd3taBhmSg0)):

>We never talk about the time they got bombed and gassed and shot at by machine guns. We just leave that out of history books. The 8-hour work day was entirely gained by polite people with signs protesting. That's how we have a weekend, not the men who charged machine gun nests and sniped at corporate guards.

>All these things we consider just a part of life like the fact that you're supposed to get a weekend; all of these things were bought in blood by men who are willing to kill for these rights who are willing to die for these things. And we don't talk about that even though it's cool and interesting because it might give people ideas.

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30 Terrifying And Weird History Facts You Might Not Know, Meant For Adults >One of Columbus’ men, Bartolome De Las Casas, was so mortified by Columbus’ brutal atrocities against the native peoples, that he quit working for Columbus and became a Catholic priest. He described how the Spaniards under Columbus’ command cut off the legs of children who ran from them, to test the sharpness of their blades. According to De Las Casas, the men made bets as to who, with one sweep of his sword, could cut a person in half. He says that Columbus’ men poured people full of boiling soap. In a single day, De Las Casas was an eye witness as the Spanish soldiers dismembered, beheaded, or raped 3000 native people. “Such inhumanities and barbarisms were committed in my sight as no age can parallel,” De Las Casas wrote. “My eyes have seen these acts so foreign to human nature that now I tremble as I write.”

Source: "Columbus Day? True Legacy: Cruelty and Slavery." by Eric Kasum, published October 11, 2010

It feels like a conspiracy theory, but I swear they teach us about Columbus when we are too young to be exposed to his atrocities (witnessed first hand, as well as documented in his own hand in his journals) so that he will be a "controversial figure" who "might have gotten a couple things wrong about what country he was in" rather than "a f*****g horrendous vile human being on par with the worst shitheads in history.".

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30 Terrifying And Weird History Facts You Might Not Know, Meant For Adults 796 babies bodies found in a septic tank in Galway, Ireland.

796. Babies.

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I think the pertinent info you're missing is that the septic tank belonged to a "Home" for unmarried mothers that was owned and operated by the Bon Secours Sisters, an order of Catholic nuns.

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Seduction, love, cheating, betrayal, lust, and longing are as much a part of history as war and famine, conquests and rebellions, progress and repressions. However, for some folks, talking about brutality, warfare, political backstabbing, and complex statesmanship is more palatable than ever even hinting that s-e-x exists.

That’s one of those little ironies of modern life: some topics are considered taboo even though they’re objectively part and parcel of the human condition, like other things.
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30 Terrifying And Weird History Facts You Might Not Know, Meant For Adults The Radium Girls from the United States. Just read a book on them and it was horrific! The radium poisoning made their jaw bones fall out with their teeth. Not to mention all the sarcomas and the one girl who hemmoraghed and bled out because the poison ate through her jugular. They were told the Radium was safe despite there being known health risks as early as 1901. There were still radium factories being operated as of 1978.

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30 Terrifying And Weird History Facts You Might Not Know, Meant For Adults When then President of Indonesia Soekarno visited the Soviet Union the KGB thought that it would be a good idea to send a honey trap. They hired two escorts to "entertain" him and recorded the acts using a spy camera. then blackmailed President Soekarno laughed at the agents and asked them to send him the tapes so that he can watch it back home.

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30 Terrifying And Weird History Facts You Might Not Know, Meant For Adults Mary Shelley, the author of Frankenstein, apparently lost her virginity on her mother’s grave.

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Mary Shelly and Lord Byron put all modern goth couples to absolute shame.

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At the time of writing, according to the ‘Worldometer,’ nearly 8.2 billion people live on Earth. Or almost 8.173 billion, to be more precise.

The United Nations predicts that we should have 9 billion people living on the planet by the year 2037. Furthermore, the world population should balloon up to 10 billion by 2060. Of course, these projections can and will change. Predicting the future is always difficult. No matter how much data you have, no statistical model can account for every eventuality or circumstance.

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#7

Gandhi was racist and kind of a p*do. While people say he “outgrew his racism” he unquestionably slept naked in the same bed as naked teenagers, one being his grandniece to “test himself” which even if all he did was sleep is still incredibly unsettling. I detest the British colonialism as much as the next guy but it seems Gandhi is only ever remembered for the good things he did and not the extremely morally questionable things.

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30 Terrifying And Weird History Facts You Might Not Know, Meant For Adults The absolute atrocities that Japan committed during World War II not only the decimation of the Chinese people but also on their own turf.

Examples being the horrific stuff done at Unit 731 s**t should give you nightmares.

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30 Terrifying And Weird History Facts You Might Not Know, Meant For Adults The reason informed consent is legally required in study participation, The Tuskegee Syphilis Study.

In 1932 a group of 600 impoverished Black men were part of an experiment to observe untreated syphilis. 399 of these men had syphilis while the rest were used as a control group, all participating with the promise of free medical care. The men who had syphilis were never told they had it. Instead they were gaslit and offered placebos to treat "bad blood" while the researchers told local Black doctors to deny them treatment.

It was supposed to last 6 months.
It lasted 40 years, and even though penicillin was used as an effective treatment 15 years after the start of the study, it was never offered to them.

During WWII 256 infected men were drafted and diagnosed by the military, unfit to serve without treatment. The researchers got them excluded from the draft to continue the experiment unbothered.

It only stopped after news of the study was leaked to the press in 1972. 128 of the men had died directly or indirectly from a completely treatable disease they were never told they had, and 59 relatives of the men contracted or were born with syphilis as a result.

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Estimating how many people have ever lived on Earth over humanity’s roughly 200,000-year history is a tough nut to crack. Being too specific is never going to work because we lack the records, so we have to make educated guesses. A 2022 article on PRB estimates that around 117 billion members of our species have been born on our planet.

There were around 8 billion human beings living on the planet in 2022, which accounted for around 7% of the total number of people who have ever lived. This is a huge chunk of the total historical human population! And every person who has ever been born has added to the rich tapestry of history, one way or another.
#10

30 Terrifying And Weird History Facts You Might Not Know, Meant For Adults The Olsen twins countdown clock. You had grown men obsessing about this.

Slow_D-oh:

Same with:
Emma Watson
Britney Spears (who was asked repeatedly if she was still a virgin when underage.)
Anna Kournikova
and likely any popular female singer/actor who was over 15 in the 90s (at least) until very recently.
Also, just because I don't like the guy. Jerry Seinfeld had a 17-year-old girlfriend when he was 38.

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30 Terrifying And Weird History Facts You Might Not Know, Meant For Adults We would have more mummies nowadays if the victorians didn’t eat them all.

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#12

30 Terrifying And Weird History Facts You Might Not Know, Meant For Adults Baby farmers.

In Victorian (and previously one assumes) unmarried mothers were of course looked down upon and if you were in service and knocked up by the son of the owner you were a bit f****d as no-one else would give a single mother a job. The solution? Baby Farmers!

Baby farmers were basically an industry to “adopt” (for a fee of course) these babies. Of course, some of these farmers realised that it was somewhat noisy and expensive looking after a whole bunch of babies and so they used a tonic called Godfrey’s Cordial. Said tonic contained opium which knocked out the babies and they were fed it by a few unscrupulous baby farmers until they starved to death. They then disposed of baby, advertised again and the cycle begins again.

For a particularly notorious example look up Amelia Dyer or John and Sarah Makin.

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30 Terrifying And Weird History Facts You Might Not Know, Meant For Adults Victor Hugo was so popular with Parisian pr*stitutes that most brothels in Paris closed down for a day of mourning and many SWs stood outside to pay tribute.

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Winston Churchill's entire career outside of WW2 was basically monstrous. He had concentration camps in South Africa, was a eugenicist, and used ex-military police to crack down on the anti-colonial movement in Ireland.

Say what you want about the guy, he obviously has a major role in WW2, but he was basically just a coin flip away from being a British fascist.

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30 Terrifying And Weird History Facts You Might Not Know, Meant For Adults In 1944, 9 American airmen were shot down over the Japanese island Chichijima in the Bonin Islands. 8 were captured by Japanese troops, and were then beaten, tortured, and executed by beheading. Their remains were cannibalized by Japanese officers. The ritual cannibalism included eating the livers of freshly killed prisoners, and eating living prisoners over several days, amputating limbs to keep the meat fresh.

This case was investigated in 1947 in a war crimes trial, and of the 30 Japanese soldiers prosecuted, four officers were found guilty and hanged. All enlisted men were released within eight years.

Vice Admiral Mori Kunizo, commander of the Chichi-Jima air base believed hat consumption of human liver had medical benefits. He was initially sentenced to life imprisonment for his involvement in the incident, but was sentenced to death and hanged after a separate trial for other war crimes.

The 9th airman who successfully evaded capture was eventually rescued. 45 years later he was elected President of the United States.

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In Ancient Pompeii, the way they would direct you towards the nearest brothel was with a d**k engraved into the pavement and walls pointing the way towards it.

The engravings survived the volcanic eruption, so if you go to Pompeii today you will find the paths literally paved with d***s.

danylp:

When I was there we stopped by a group led by a guide lady at the exact moment she showed them the carvings and asked them what they thought it was. Everyone said some mild things like "leaf", "boat" etc. and I was like "That definitely looks like a penis!" and the lady turned to me: "Yes, exactly, thank you!". It was fun.

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The Institut für Sexualwissenschaft in Berlin was founded in 1919 and was the first of it's kind to research trans, gay and intersex individuals. It housed an enormous collection of notes and books on sexual research and was one of the first targets of the nazi bookburnings. Everyone's seen the pictures but very few people know what was actually burned.

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30 Terrifying And Weird History Facts You Might Not Know, Meant For Adults King Ferdinand I, or Ferrante, of Naples kept a so called black museum of the mummified remains of his personal and political enemies. He had them dressed and arranged in various scenes and would often show off the museum to potential rivals/enemies he hadn’t yet killed off. So yeah, pretty messed up.

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30 Terrifying And Weird History Facts You Might Not Know, Meant For Adults Charlie Chaplin impregnated a 15-year-old girl when he was 35. She (Lita Grey) was 8 when he met her.

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30 Terrifying And Weird History Facts You Might Not Know, Meant For Adults A couple of NASA interns several years ago stole a huge number of moonrocks brought back during the Apollo missions, spread them out on a motel bed and had s*x on them, just so they could say they’d had s*x on the Moon.

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30 Terrifying And Weird History Facts You Might Not Know, Meant For Adults They didn't start using anesthesia on babies until the late 1980s. It wasn't until 1987 that the American Academy of Pediactrics declared it unethical to operate on infants without the use of anesthesia. Mother's were doing everything to convince doctors that their babies could feel pain, but since the doctors said they would have no long-term memory at that point, then it wasn't as important. That's not very long ago!

From wiki-, "In the late nineteenth, and first half of the twentieth century[citation needed], doctors were taught that babies did not experience pain and were treating their young patients accordingly. From needle sticks to tonsillectomies to heart operations were done with no anaesthesia or analgesia, other than muscle relaxation for the surgery.[citation needed] The belief was that in babies the expression of pain was reflexive and, owing to the immaturity of the infant brain, the pain could not really matter."
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pain_in_babies.

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30 Terrifying And Weird History Facts You Might Not Know, Meant For Adults My all time favorite - it seems there was some super important Chinese empress who made emissaries and foreign dignataries go down on her at least partly as a sign of dominance.

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30 Terrifying And Weird History Facts You Might Not Know, Meant For Adults Shakespeare was not some high-brow fancy cultural icon. He was the trash Hollywood movies of his time. People would go to the theatres to get p**s drunk, yell at actors and solicit women who were advertising themselves in the standing sections. Also, the content of his plays (and poems but that’s not my focal point here) were not rated E for everyone lol I actually can’t believe some of the plays that are taught in school. Sure, it’s easy to miss all the sex and penis jokes if you’re just reading it but a good actor will find them and play them out.

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2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

If his plays survived for centuries, then they must have been better than mere trash, whatever the theater-going crowd's habits were at the time.

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2 months ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

There wasn't really any upper-class theatre at the time, the nearest equivalent would be religious works of music, so all his and everybody else's plays were written and performed for the masses. Calling it 'trash' implies that there was some less trashy alternative, but in fact there was nothing.

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2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

In Shakespearan parlance the 'length of a man's wit' was in fact a d1ck joke. Which makes the Ravenclaw motto "wit beyond measure is man's greatest treasure" take on a whole different meaning.

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2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

When we read Romeo and Juliet and Macbeth in school, we most certainly did pick up on all the double entendre. At the start of that part of the curriculum the teachers told us how low brow it was and said we might laugh but had to keep going through the material rather than letting it distract us.

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2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

As someone once observed, all he did was string a load of old quotes together :) The fact that the plots have been adapted to other forms (eg West Side Story, The Lion King) tells you that they were pretty well crafted.

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2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

To be fair he did invent a whole load of new words and phrases that we still use today. One of my favourites is "poisonous bunch-backed toad".

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2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Shakespeare's plays were well written for both the higher classes and the lower classes. Incredible work to keep two different types of audiences engaged. They weren't 'high art', because they were produced for the masses, but they're enduring examples of GOOD art.

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2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This is how I remember it being presented in high school English class. The cheap seats were at the bottom of the theater where all the poor drunk people were, and then the fancy people were seated higher up. Both audiences found things to enjoy in the plays.

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2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Shakespeare's goal was to appeal to the masses, he wrote for the "commoners", the working class, not the elites. Considering the fact that he's been dead for 400 years, and his works continue to be adapted to this day, not sure how a random internet commenter thinks they have the capacity to call one of the most famous writers, ever "trash"

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2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

He did write to please his masters and patrons, as evidenced by his misrepresentation of Richard III.

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2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

How is this "dark history"? The fact that he wasn't as well respected in his lifetime means nothing. There are plenty of artists who were recognized after death (Mozart, Rembrandt, Vermeer, Monet, van Gogh, Gauguin...). Time has tested the quality of Shakespeare's plays.

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2 months ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Mozart was well respected during his life he was a court composer and very much a fancy pants. Just bc Shakespeare wrote a bunch of commercial hits didn't mean he wasn't respected, the people love "trash" all the Micheal Bay movies reality TV, we love gabage now we love it then the common people and there's much more of them, thus the common, love stories they can get lost in for a few hours and forget their daily struggles. Besides there was probably more than just one "Shakespeare" anyway, probably a collective of Highminded that made their actual money with common people trash hits played at the globe lol. Kind of like now. Make money with the "trash" movie to fund your serious movie

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2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

i don't think that shakespeare is remembered for the groundbreaking plots...most were taken from earlier works...and, i don't think he is remembered b/c he had mass appeal...and, i don't think he was remembered for being erudite...i think he is remembered for the writing...the st. crispin's day speech...the hamlet solliquy...the sonnets...the turns of phrase are amazing...great writing is great writing...and, yes, a great actor will bring out all of the baudy humor as well as the raw emotion in the dramas

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2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I don't think you can understand Shakespeare if you don't learn the bawdy humour at the same time.

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2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The 'theatre district' in London at the time was on the other side of the Thames, opposite from the Great and Good as a way of trying to keep the disreputable theatre people (many of whom were sailors) from dragging down the rest of society. The Puritans were on the political rise at the time, so this absolutely contributed to the notion that theatres were nothing by dens of iniquity full of prostitution, vice, and all kinds of licentious behaviors. Shakespeare was writing for the masses, ergo all of the fart jokes and dirty bits in his plays. I actively teach those parts in my class specifically as a way of trying to de-rarify his plays.

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2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Doctor Who had a great bit about that. DOCTOR: Genius. He's a genius. The genius. The most human human there's ever been. Now we're going to hear him speak. Always he chooses the best words. New, beautiful, brilliant words. SHAKESPEARE: Ah, shut your big fat mouths! DOCTOR: Oh, well. MARTHA: You should never meet your heroes.

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2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

True about all "classics". I can't believe some of the stuff we read in 9th grade Latin class. Includes a poem about a f-up old whore... By Catullus. So it's educational

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2 months ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It is, you realize he was writing most scathing political take downs of some big names at the time in a gentle way Ceasar Cicero et al he was one of the first to write poetry in a personal emotional manner and not about the gods and heroes, but about people and he used a polished modern style. There was a lot of meaning you didn't catch. Go back and read historically what was happening during the time that was written and maybe you'll catch the kind of reverse double entendres, he was quite clever. You had to be to insult very powerful men and not be killed outright. That being said he did young so...

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1 month ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Shakespeare was well loved and respected during his life and people flocked to his plays - not every theatregoer was a yob.

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2 months ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It's said that if he were alive today, Shakespeare would be writing for soap oparas.

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2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Villain what hast thou done? That which thou canst not undo. Thou hast undone our mother. Villain, I have done thy mother. (Titus Andronicus)

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2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Harry Potter is going to be known for a long time. Literature? Of course not. The Godfather series. Great cinema? Not really. What becomes popular and is remembered through succeeding generations is what speaks to us. Twilight had the same spate of popularity as did Harry Potter, but now Twilight is mostly a joke. The Ocean movies were of a family of con artists. Not the same as The Godfather series, but just as entertaining. How about John Wick? I bet people will have some ideas who Jason was in a hundred years or more. If Jason survives a half-century, he might be considered high class entertainment for people choosing what homework to give high school kids.

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2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Well, his education included Ovid, so it's not like he was the same uneducated trash coming out of US public schools of today.

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30 Terrifying And Weird History Facts You Might Not Know, Meant For Adults The inventor of the polygraph also created Wonder Woman, who was based on his wife and the college student the two of them had a polyamorous relationship with.

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30 Terrifying And Weird History Facts You Might Not Know, Meant For Adults The Romans f****d a natural birth control into extinction

I forget the details, but essentially there was an herb on some me Greek island that acted as a natural birth control. The Romans proceeded to f**k so often that said plant no longer exists.

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Silphium - while its effectiveness and even use as a contraceptive is debated it’s possibly been rediscovered and may in fact just had its name/identity drift overtime and has been hiding in plain sight.

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In ancient Greece, athletes used to compete in the Olympics completely naked. Imagine training your whole life, only to have your legacy reduced to 'the guy who dropped the javelin… and everything else...

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Pole vaulting incidents like this year's would've been more common.

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Queen Victoria spent quiet a lot of time writing about her sex life with Prince Albert in great detail. She was also known for being unnecessarily cruel to her daughters and actually survived at least 8 known assassination attempts.

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30 Terrifying And Weird History Facts You Might Not Know, Meant For Adults The inventor of the autopilot crashed his plane while attempting to join the Mile High Club.

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30 Terrifying And Weird History Facts You Might Not Know, Meant For Adults The Dutch ate their prime minister.

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Mozart. Loved. Farts and poop jokes. Loved 'em. Read some of his weird letters he sent to friends that were just filled with poop and fart jokes.

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