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1. The Ottoman Empire’s Sultan Ibrahim I had 280 of his concubines You do not have permission to view the full content of this post. Log in or register now. after one of them slept with another man.

2. In medieval times people were put to death for being witches. One anthropologist conjectures as many as You do not have permission to view the full content of this post. Log in or register now..

3. Mexican General Santa Anna had an You do not have permission to view the full content of this post. Log in or register now. for his amputated leg.

4. Tens of thousands of You do not have permission to view the full content of this post. Log in or register now. each year in China because of the country’s one-child policy.

5. Before the mid-19th century dentures were commonly made with teeth You do not have permission to view the full content of this post. Log in or register now..

6. Roman Emperor Gaius You do not have permission to view the full content of this post. Log in or register now..

7. Ice age Britons used You do not have permission to view the full content of this post. Log in or register now. as cups.

8. After Pope Gregory IX You do not have permission to view the full content of this post. Log in or register now., cats throughout Europe were exterminated in droves.

9. This sudden lack of cats led to the spread of disease because infected rats ran free. The most devastating of these diseases, You do not have permission to view the full content of this post. Log in or register now., killed 100 million people.

10. The Aztecs You do not have permission to view the full content of this post. Log in or register now.. In 1487, at the dedication of the temple in Tenochtitlan, 20,000 people were put to death.

11. The Mayans also made sacrifices. The most common involved pulling a You do not have permission to view the full content of this post. Log in or register now. out of a victim’s chest.

12. In the 13th century 30,000 children went on what is known as You do not have permission to view the full content of this post. Log in or register now.. They were convinced God would allow them to take back the Holy Land without incident, but most died on the journey or were sold into slavery.

13. In ancient Egypt, servants were You do not have permission to view the full content of this post. Log in or register now. in order to attract flies away from the pharaoh.

14. Upon dying, some pharaohs were You do not have permission to view the full content of this post. Log in or register now. alongside their living servants, pets, and concubines.

15. The Romans used You do not have permission to view the full content of this post. Log in or register now. as mouthwash.

16. In 1788 the Austrian army attacked itself and lost 10,000 men.

17. Before becoming pope, Pius II You do not have permission to view the full content of this post. Log in or register now., The Tale of Two Lovers.

18. People were buried alive so often in the 19th century that inventors You do not have permission to view the full content of this post. Log in or register now. that would give the “dead” the ability to alert those above ground if they were still alive.

19. Approximately You do not have permission to view the full content of this post. Log in or register now., which was more than 2.5% of America’s population at the time.

20. In Medieval times the accused often faced a “You do not have permission to view the full content of this post. Log in or register now.,” where they were forced to stick their arm into a vat of boiling water. If their arm emerged unscathed, it was believed God protected them, thus proving their innocence.

21. Animals were You do not have permission to view the full content of this post. Log in or register now. in medieval times and routinely sentenced to death.

22. Beginning in 1909 (and continuing into the 1970s), the Australian government instituted a policy of You do not have permission to view the full content of this post. Log in or register now. from their parents and teaching them to reject their Aboriginality.

23. In the 1970s Pol Pot’s communist regime You do not have permission to view the full content of this post. Log in or register now. into becoming soldiers who committed mass murders and other atrocities.

24. Japanese samurais disemboweled themselves with their sword (You do not have permission to view the full content of this post. Log in or register now.) when in danger of being captured.

25. New research suggests that 15–20 million people were murdered or imprisoned by the Nazis during the Holocaust, You do not have permission to view the full content of this post. Log in or register now..

26. Joseph Stalin, the dictator of the USSR from 1929–1953, is You do not have permission to view the full content of this post. Log in or register now. between 20-60 million people.

27. Between 1525 and 1866, 12.5 million Africans were You do not have permission to view the full content of this post. Log in or register now. in the United States, Caribbean, and South America.

28. The introduction of Europeans to the New World saw the You do not have permission to view the full content of this post. Log in or register now. from an estimated 12 million in 1500 to barely 237,000 in 1900.

29. In the 19th century a popular medicine for kids, “You do not have permission to view the full content of this post. Log in or register now.,” included morphine.

30. In 1917, Margaret Sanger was You do not have permission to view the full content of this post. Log in or register now. for establishing the first birth control clinic.

31. In Venice during the Renaissance there was a case where a You do not have permission to view the full content of this post. Log in or register now. of going to jail for six months, paying a fine, or marrying his victim. He chose marriage.

32. Chairman Mao Zedong You do not have permission to view the full content of this post. Log in or register now. during China’s “Great Leap Forward” from 1958–1962.

33. Peter the Great You do not have permission to view the full content of this post. Log in or register now., then forced her to keep her lover’s head in a jar of ******* in her bedroom.

34. In 16th-century Canada, women drank a You do not have permission to view the full content of this post. Log in or register now. ground into it as a form of contraception.

35. Genghis Khan You do not have permission to view the full content of this post. Log in or register now. across Asia and Europe.

36. In the 16th and 17th century wealthy Europeans You do not have permission to view the full content of this post. Log in or register now. thinking they’d cure them of ailments.

37. They even ate You do not have permission to view the full content of this post. Log in or register now., which tomb raiders risked their lives to s†éál.

38. In the 15th century Romanian ruler Vlad the Impaler You do not have permission to view the full content of this post. Log in or register now. on long, sharp poles on the banks of the Danube.

39. Vlad also enjoyed sopping up his enemies’ blood with bread and eating it. This disturbing practice, along with his family name of Dracula and birthplace of Transylvania, You do not have permission to view the full content of this post. Log in or register now.

40. African-American men You do not have permission to view the full content of this post. Log in or register now. members of the Mormon Church until 1978.

41. South Africans You do not have permission to view the full content of this post. Log in or register now. in an attempt to root out homosexuality in their army.

42. In early Rome a father could You do not have permission to view the full content of this post. Log in or register now. anyone in his family.

43. After finding a 36,000 year old steppe bison preserved in the ice, Alaskan zoology professor R. Dale Guthrie and his team You do not have permission to view the full content of this post. Log in or register now.. Guthrie said “the meat was well aged but still a little tough.”

44. Child killer and rapist Pedro Lopez, known as “The Monster of the Andes,” was convicted in 1983 of You do not have permission to view the full content of this post. Log in or register now. (though he confessed to killing 300).

45. Lopez was You do not have permission to view the full content of this post. Log in or register now. after serving Ecuador’s maximum sentence of 20 years. His whereabouts are presently unknown.

46. The Roman Emperor Commodus collected all the disabled and little people he could find and You do not have permission to view the full content of this post. Log in or register now. each other to the death with meat cleavers in the Colosseum.

47. Prior to the 1960s ******* companies ran physician-endorsed ads that suggested ******* had health benefits.

48.Soviet biologist Ilya Ivanovich Ivanov attempted to You do not have permission to view the full content of this post. Log in or register now., but failed in his quest to make a “humanzee.”

49. In 755 A.D. the You do not have permission to view the full content of this post. Log in or register now. against the Chinese Tang Dynasty resulted in 36 million deaths, or one-sixth of the entire world population.

50. In colonial America *******t women didn’t receive painkillers during delivery because pain was You do not have permission to view the full content of this post. Log in or register now. for Eve’s eating the forbidden fruit.

51. Saddam Hussein was given You do not have permission to view the full content of this post. Log in or register now. of Detroit.
 
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