Do you know the history of children working in dangerous Victorian industries? These kids were worked to the literal bone. Children worked in coal mines. Some children worked underground or around mine entrances, performing repetitive jobs such as opening and closing ventilation doors. The work could involve darkness, dust, exhausting hours, and serious accident risks. …
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What do you know about death in the Victorian era? Do you think these facts will surprise you? Mourning could become an entire lifestyle. When someone died, surviving relatives were expected to follow elaborate social rules governing clothing, behavior, socializing, and even how long they should remain in mourning. Black clothing wasn’t just a fashion …
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What do you think you know about the history of human experimentation? Do you believe that it was horrible? Anatomists sometimes obtained bodies illegally. Before modern laws regulated human remains, medical schools desperately needed cadavers for dissection. In 18th- and 19th-century Britain and America, “resurrection men” made money by secretly digging up recently buried bodies …
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Did you read Not Fun Facts About Asylums Throughout History: Part One? Because this is part two. Some patients were chained. Before reforms in psychiatric care, chaining and physical confinement were documented practices in institutions in Europe and elsewhere. The “mad” could be displayed publicly. In some historical settings, people with mental illnesses were treated …
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Do you think you know these not fun facts about asylums? There are such crazy stories about the mental health field. “Treatment” could involve spinning patients around. Some doctors believed rapidly rotating a person in a chair could reset the brain and cure mental illness. Ice baths were used as psychiatric treatment. Patients might be …
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This is not your potato chips and chocolate kind of list, at least not just potato chips and chocolate. Do you think you know all the craziest chocolate combinations from this list? Chocolate + blue cheese + honey — Funky, salty, sweet, creamy, and ridiculously intense. Chocolate + potato chips + pickle juice — Salty …
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What do you think of these wild ways to reset? Do you think you might try any of them out? Going completely off-grid — Some people are taking “disconnecting” to an extreme by disappearing into cabins, remote campsites, or rural properties with little or no internet access. For a few days, their biggest concern is …
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Remember Google Glass? If not, I can’t blame you. It was a short-lived, futuristic device in the mid-2010s that was supposed to integrate a computer into eyeglasses, allowing you to perform searches and such wherever you went. The Glass died, partially because the technology just wasn’t there yet. Now, it is – and that’s becoming …
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They say you have to suffer for beauty. Depending on what you do, that suffering may quickly become very real. People are ready to do pretty crazy things to look better (at least in their own heads). It seems like every day there’s some new thing that’s supposed to make you prettier, but it comes …
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What do you think is on this list of weird food-related cases? Like what happened to the man that ate too many carrots? The Man Who Lived on Pizza for Decades Dan Janssen became famous for eating almost nothing but cheese pizza for years. Despite the extremely limited diet, he continued living a normal life …
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