The Bizarre and Dangerous Beauty Trends of Ancient Times

Using Arsenic as a Skincare Product

Arsenic is rat poison, but for some reason, women used to ingest arsenic to make them look paler. That, and it would kill them from time to time. Do not do this, please. 

Public Plucking

Native Americans used to have a different way to go about waxing their private parts. There was a community ritual where men and women would stand naked in front of a crowd and pluck all of the hair off of their body between their thighs and belly button. That definitely did not feel good. 

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The More You Know

  • In 1923, jockey Frank Hayes won a race at Belmont Park in New York despite being dead — he suffered a heart attack mid-race but his body stayed in the saddle until his horse crossed the line for a 20–1 outsider victory.
  • The world record for the tallest stack of doughnuts totaled more than 3,000.
  • In 1945, Dwight D. Eisenhower predicted that people would try to dispel the holocaust as a falsehood, and ordered all possible photographs taken of the Nazi crimes to hinder any such attempts.
  • Commercial flights were allowed to fly any course to their destination and would often detour over points of interest. This ended in 1956 when two planes crashed mid-flight over the Grand Canyon.
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Post originally appeared on Upbeat News.