The Bizarre and Dangerous Beauty Trends of Ancient Times

Sunlight Therapy

Although this is a cosmetic procedure in this photo, doctors recommend that normal people do this if they work indoors during the time of the year where the sun doesn't shine as much as other times. It was originally used in the mainstream to treat tuberculosis, which never worked. 

The Finn Sauna

People in Finland love their saunas. They love them so much that they created a country-exclusive patent for a mobile sauna called the Finn Sauna. Different versions of this device moved around the world, but this one is really the only one that 20th-century sauna enthusiasts stuck with. 

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The More You Know

  • The Guinness brewery supported all of it's employees who chose to fight in WW1. They were paid half of their wages while away, and their jobs were guaranteed upon their return. The brewery also sent them care packages containing chocolate and condensed milk.
  • If you take all the letters from the word "wizard" and swap them with opposite letters (a->z, b->y), it spells wizard backwards.
  • War pigs were used in ancient warfare to counter against war elephants, which feared the pigs (and their squeals) and would bolt. War pigs were sometimes lit on fire to enhance this effect.
  • Tennis was originally played with bare hands.
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Post originally appeared on Upbeat News.