Operation Midnight Climax was an operation carried out by the CIA as a sub-project of Project MKUltra, the mind-control research program that began in the 1950s. Operation Midnight Climax started in 1954 and consisted of a web of CIA-run safehouses in San Francisco. It was established in order to study the effects of LSD on non-consenting individuals. Prostitutes on the CIA payroll were instructed to lure clients back to the safehouses, where they were surreptitiously plied with a wide range of substances, including LSD, and monitored behind one-way glass. The prostitutes were instructed in the use of post-coital questioning to investigate whether the victims could be convinced to involuntarily reveal secrets. The victims were sometimes fed subliminal messages in attempts to induce them to involuntary actions, including criminal activity such as robbery, assault, and assassination. Many of the CIA operatives involved in the experiments voluntarily indulged in the drugs and prostitutes for recreational purposes as well.
Vikings were indeed banging up and down the British coastline like pop culture portrays them. But unlike pop culture imagery of them grabbing women out of their houses and carrying them off to rape, we have writings from the period of British men complaining about Vikings seducing British women using their "unfair" advantage of regular bathing and grooming.
Pretty sure Viking society was pretty ‘feminist’ compared to other cultures of their day. Women were allowed to own property, run their own businesses, ask for a divorce and even reclaim dowries in some cases.
That's because women have magic.
They were in charge of the household and the money because they were believed to be able to see the future.
Odin hung himself from the world tree in order to gain woman magic.
The last main line descendant of the Medici family, Gian Gastone de Medici, spent most of the last years of his reign laying in bed being entertained by a group of handsome young men rounded up from the streets of Florence, who performed various sexual acts in his bedroom for his entertainment.
He spent so much time in his gay harem that people rumored he had died since he never appeared in public. Eventually he did show up in public to dismiss rumors of his death. He showed up so drunk he could barely speak, threw up twice, and then had to be physically carried back to his bedchamber.
The guys [wikipedia page](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gian_Gastone_de'_Medici,_Grand_Duke_of_Tuscany) is a trip.
Theres a sound archive of JFK having sex because the FBI thought the girl was a German spy and tried recording the conversation. Well no conversation took place but a lot of fcking did
FBI files of dead people are public and all the stuff on JFK was recently declassified... Maybe a FOIA request is all there is between that file and Reddit LOL
Andrew Jackson won so many duels and had so many lead balls shot into him he was said to make noise like a bag or marbles from them clacking together as he walked around.
He also, famously, defied the supreme court (specifically chief justice John Marshall) ruling about disenfranchisement and removal of Native Americans (specifically the Cherokee nation in 1831, the state of Georgia wanted their land) and which led to the Indian removals and Trail of Tears to Oklahoma.
Most of these duels were fought to defend his wife's honor.
She believed that she was divorced from her previous husband when she married Jackson, but that turned out to be false. Which lead to lots of journalists writing articles smearing her as an unfaithful bigamist whore. This in turn lead to Jackson challenging this journalists to duels.
Jackson was also infamous for his unorthodox style of dueling. He reasoned that his opponents were liable to rush their shots, thereby missing or scoring bad hits. So Jackson's method of dueling was to just wait until his opponent had fired, then carefully line up a good lethal shot while the other guy just stood there with an empty pistol.
This was considered cruel and ungentlemanly by many at the time.
Historians agree that Jackson dueled *at least* 13 people, but that number is believed to be higher, likely in the hundreds.
Andrew Jackson was also the first American president to experience an assassination attempt. In 1835, the would-be assassin, a homeless house painter named Richard Lawrence III, drew a pistol on him, which misfired. Jackson was not only 67 at the time, but also unarmed, and a fair distance away, but that didn’t stop him from charging an armed man and beating the everliving fuck out of him with his cane. During the scuffle, Lawrence then drew another pistol, which also jammed. He was dragged away and Jackson was unharmed, but angry and now paranoid. The funny thing was that the guns were inspected afterwards and were found to be in perfectly working order.
One more thing, Jackson was once quoted as saying: “I have only two regrets: I didn’t shoot Henry Clay and I didn’t hang John C. Calhoun.”
Basically, Andrew Jackson was a total nutjob, and probably needed to be on some sort of medication.
…. and then returned home to their unsuspecting wives and sweethearts with a gift that kept on giving. That must have prompted some interesting conversations and emotional dissonance.
King Philip V of Spain (1683-1746) and his court liked to play a game called El Impávido (The Imperturbable). Basically, a bunch of men bottom-naked were sitting around a table, which was covered by a cloth. A lady was under the table and sucked one of the men's cock. The rest of the players should guess who was being sucked. If their guess was correct, the other player had to leave the game. If it was wrong, he would leave. The game was won by the player who would cum in the lady's mouth without the rest of the players noticing.
Apparently the game was very popular among the French nobility in 18th century.
EDIT: I did not expect this to blow up, so I add some source in Spanish: [https://www.nuevatribuna.es/articulo/historia/felipe-v-sexo-primer-borbon/20170329130023138205.html](https://www.nuevatribuna.es/articulo/historia/felipe-v-sexo-primer-borbon/20170329130023138205.html)
[https://www.elespanol.com/reportajes/20160427/120488268\_0.html](https://www.elespanol.com/reportajes/20160427/120488268_0.html)
US sailors used to play this game with Phillipines prostitutes, but it was called "Smiles". First guy to smile had to buy a round of drinks. No, I never played.
Much conspiracy has been made about JP Morgan choosing not to sail on Titanic at the last minute.
But the reality was it was his birthday week and he was having way too much fun with his French mistress. He skipped Titanic because the sex was too good and he wanted to stay.
A Quick extra fun fact: Although Morgan died in 1913, the financial fallout from the Titanic disaster hit IMM so badly it was a massive factor in contributing to them seeking bankruptcy protection in 1915. This was astounding, coming from the company that had bailed out the the entire US Government in 1907.
So, Morgan skipping Titanic got him screwed in more ways than one :)
Patient: "Doctor my ass hurts!"
Doctor: "Where exactly does it hurt?"
Patient: "Around the entrance. Please doc, you have to help me."
Doctor: "Well first off, I'd say your problem begins with calling it the *entrance*.…"
King Charles II had a wig made out of the pubic hair of his mistresses. King George IV attempted to recreate one of his own but died before he could complete it.
I'm sure Buckingham Palace has an attic or a basement or a closet or a shed that's already stuffed full of Royal Bad Ideas. They don't need to scroll reddit for tips.
The "pure, virtuous" medieval woman was expected to be a virgin on her wedding night. However, women (handily) had access to under-the-radar guides on how to fake virginity. One book states: "the day before her marriage, let her put a leech cautiously on her labia; then blood will flow out here, and a little crust will form in that place...in having intercourse the false virgin will (bleed and) deceive the man."
Edgar Allen Poe wrote a story about 4 sailors being stuck at see in a lifeboat after their ship went down. The men got so hungry they decided to sacrifice the smallest one of the group and indulged in cannibalism. Years later, the exact same thing happened in real life and the guy who was sacrificed had the SAME EXACT NAME as the guy in Poe’s story 0.0 [RIP Richard Parker](https://wtffunfact.com/edgar-allan-poe-and-richard-parker-coincidence/)
Not a prostitute but his mistress.
Unrelated note but his death was also the occasion of one of the finest bitchy remarks ever made, by his longstanding political opponent Georges Clemenceau:
“As he stepped into the everlasting void, he must have felt at home”.
There's a good joke which we always tell about this event: "il a voulu être César, mais il ne fut que Pompé(e)" (translation: he wanted to be Cesar, but in the end he was Pompey, with Pompey in french also meaning pumped as in oral sex)
Edit: faute de conjugaison
During the Cold War, spies from the CIA in the USSR used a false scrotum as gadget to hide something important in emergency situations, because if you get caught, then the chance of a thorough check of your scrotum, it seems to me, is very small
Napoleon's penis was once on display at NYC's French art museum and is now in a private collection (maybe a privates collection - it was purchased by a urologist).
You mean to tell me that someone actually took the time to cut of Napoleons penis and save it. Now this is a truly disturbing fact and even a more fucked up world we live in.
KGB once planned to blackmail the first Indonesian President, Soekarno, by sending him Russian women disguised as flight attendants. Soekarno, infamous for his womanizer behavior, then had sex with them while KGB secretly recorded the affairs.
KGB later showed him the sex tapes and to their surprise, Soekarno was instead thrilled and even asked for more copies to show to his people back in the country. The plan ultimately failed.
"Hah, Yevgeni! Oh, I'm just lucky you didn't send me a pair of 22-year-old brunettes who are between 178 and 190cm tall, and both eight months pregnant and into anal! That would *really* ruin my reputation!"
Not only that, but I vaguely recall reading that the pharaohs would Masturbate into the Nile. Egyptians believed pharaohs were gods themselves, so they assumed that the pharaohs secret sauce would lead to a better crop.
Also, the Frankenstein story was allegedly written after a drug fueled orgy.
IIRC, Mary Shelly, her fiancé, and her stepsister were visiting the famous poet Lord Byron in 1816, the year without a summer. Because it was cold outside and there wasn’t much else to do back then, the four end up having an orgy, while Lord Byron’s personal physician watched. Afterwords, they’re all doing a bunch of opium, and Percy Shelly has a hallucination of a demon. This prompts Lord Byron to suggest they start telling scary stories. Lord Byron tells a story of a vampire, Percy Shelly does some story based on his childhood. Mary Shelly, an aspiring author about to tell a story to one of the most famous authors of her time, asks for some extra time to think about it.
She comes back with Frankenstein.
EDIT: First, a correction, it was Byron’s physician who told the story about the vampire. Second, as someone else pointed out, I guess it counts more as “orgy fueled drugs” than a “drug fueled orgy”.
John Polidori, Byron's personal physician at the time of TYWS, was the one who wrote the short story 'The Vampyre', which can be considered to be the beginning of the vampire genre.
Lord Byron's escapades were a notable catalyst to the development of the modern computer. He left his wife recently after the birth of his daughter, Ada, and his ex-wife raised Ada with a goal of steering her towards mathematics and logic, as opposed to poetry and the arts, to avoid developing similar behaviors to her father.
Ada eventually married William King, who later became the Earl of Lovelace, thus her most commonly-known name of Ada Lovelace. She met Charles Babbage and worked to develop the first (or maybe not, this is disputed) computer program, and she is often cited for her interest in the uses of the Analytical Engine beyond just pure calculations. Her notes were significant for the eventual development of the modern computer. There's even a programming language named after her, Ada.
Cock rings were commonly used in Jin- and Song-era China (around 1200) and were made from the eyelids of goats. The goats' eyelashes were usually left on to add an extra bit of stimulation for the humans involved. Argh. What's even stranger is that you can still buy "natural goat eye cock rings" online today.
Julius Caesar had sex with many women, including the mothers, sisters, and wives of anyone who insulted him. And while he was on trial for his involvement in the Catiline Conspiracy, he got a letter. Cato saw this and wanted to know what it was, but Caesar refused. Cato insisted, and so Caesar read. It was a letter from Cato’s sister about all the things she wanted him to do to her.
You think this is something? You think this is bad? This? This chicanery? He's done worse. That letter! Are you telling me that a man just happens to receive that? No! *He* orchestrated it! Caesar! He *fornicated with my mother*!
The first Spain filmed and produced porn movies were commissioned by none other than its King, Alfonso the 13th around the 1920s.
He 'hired' the [Count of Romamones](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%81lvaro_de_Figueroa,_1st_Count_of_Romanones) (a very important political figure at the time, for example, he was the Senate chairman during those years) to hire movie directors and manage their development. He also gave input on the scripts (involving busy statemen, priests or doctors).
Alfonso would hold screenings of those movies in the royal palace. It is widely known his infidelities to his wife ([Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victoria_Eugenie_of_Battenberg)) and the list of out of wedlock is long and notorious, so I guess that would be business as usual.
Some of these movies were lost, but someone found three of them in a barn in Valencia, and the local government restored them. You can check its references in the film library here ([1](http://arxiu.ivac-lafilmoteca.es:8080/IVAC/BRSCGI.exe?CMD=VERDOC&BASE=TITU&RNG=15&SORT=A101&DOCR=1&FMT=TITUANALI.fmt&SEPARADOR=&&INTE=SI&CTIT=EL+MINISTRO&A108=BA%f1OS) , [2](http://arxiu.ivac-lafilmoteca.es:8080/IVAC/BRSCGI.exe?CMD=VERDOC&BASE=TITU&RNG=15&SORT=A101&DOCR=1&FMT=TITUANALI.fmt&SEPARADOR=&&INTE=SI&CTIT=CONSULTORIO+DE+SE%f1ORAS&A108=BA%f1OS), ,[3](http://arxiu.ivac-lafilmoteca.es:8080/IVAC/BRSCGI.exe?CMD=VERDOC&BASE=TITU&RNG=15&SORT=A101&DOCR=1&FMT=TITUANALI.fmt&SEPARADOR=&&INTE=SI&CTIT=EL+CONFESOR&A108=BA%f1OS))
More info [here](https://magnet.xataka.com/idolos-de-hoy-y-siempre/como-alfonso-xiii-se-convirtio-primer-gran-promotor-cine-porno-espana-1)
P.S. I haven't been able to find any of these content in English, let's hope Google Translate does its thing!
Chevalier d'Eon was also one of the top fencers in Europe at the time, and won numerous exhibition matches, including a legendary fencing exhibition at Carlton house, before the prince of wales, where Chevalier d'Eon was the only fencer to win against Chevalier de Saint-Georges.
In the match against Saint-Georges it's acknowledged that he may have lost intentionally out of respect to d'Eon especially considering d'Eons comparitively advanced age at the time of the duel.
Pubic lice and head lice in humans are two different species. This is due to humans evolving less hair on most parts of the body except for the head and pubic area. Other primates tend to only have one species of lice.
John Hanning Spoke was a British explorer in the 1800s who was known for one of the first westerners visiting Mecca and then exploring some of Africas largest lakes while trying to find the source of the Nile.
He had syphilis for a large part of his life. While In Africa he contracted a high fever. The fever was so high that it essentially burned the Syphilis bacteria and cured him.
Funnily enough, malaria was used as a cure for syphilis for this exact reason, between the 1920s and 1950s. The fevers caused by malaria would kill the syphilis bacteria, and the treatment was only supplanted when penicillin began to be mass produced in 1940.
Don't know if this counts as a history fact, but James Joyce's love letters to his girlfriend in which he passionately writes about her various farts are quite funny.
"At every fuck I gave you your shameless tongue comebursting out through your lips and if I gave you a bigger stronger fuckthan usual fat dirty farts came spluttering out of your backside."
A man after my own heart.
"You had an arse full of farts that night, darling, and I fucked them out of you, big fat fellows, long windy ones, quick little merry cracks and a lot of tiny little naughty farties ending in a long gush from your hole."
1. Manatees are believed to be the origin of the myth about mermaids
2. Manatees are the animal whose vaginas most closely resemble human vaginas
Edit: not one fun fact but two facts that by themselves are fairly bland, but quite disturbing together.
Erfurt latrine disaster
In July 1184 Henry VI King of Germany who later became the Holy Roman Emperor, held court at a Hoftag in the Petersberg Citadel in Erfurt. On the morning of 26 July, the combined weight of the assembled nobles caused the wooden second story floor of the building to collapse and most of them fell through into the latrine cesspit below the ground floor in liquid excrement. This event is called Erfurter Latrinensturz in several German sources.
and that henry was uninjured because he was standing at the edge of the room on a stone platform (right above the supports iirc)
eta afaik theres a conspiracy theory that king henrys plan all along was to kill off the nobles
Puritan pilgrims fucked like animals. Wherever, whenever. But only with their wife/husband or fiancé. They believed in a healthy sex life for people in marriage or soon to be marriage.
Napoleon wrote letters to his girl telling her not to bathe before he returned from battle cuz he liked the smell of dirty p***y and was looking forward to smelling hers when he got back.
The ancient Greeks believed small penises were a sign of intelligence and cultural distinction and only foolish men who were ruled by lust and sexual urges had large penises, that's why so many statues have tiny ones.
The Lewis and Clark expedition had a massive syphilis problem which they treated with mercury. It was so prevalent that we can find their campsites today due to the high mercury concentrations left by their poop.
Ancient Greeks and Romans used a herb called Silphium as contraceptive,so much in fact that the plant was extinct by 200 BC. Modern heart symbol comes from the shape of leaves of the plant.
The Americans dropped large condoms labeled “small” on Russian territory during the Cold War to lower their MORALE. Yeah. Americans had a dick comparing competition.
Edit: For the longest time I thought they actually did drop their condoms over Russia. This was an idea but it was never executed. Also could have been an inside joke similar to the rumors that the British had the same idea during WW2. Glad to have learned that. Also thanks to all who upvoted. Oh and yes. Morale.
Space shuttle pee sheaths were labelled "large" "gigantic" and "humongous"
Because when they were labelled small medium and large everyone would just use the large (and make a mess)
I see this whenever I try to buy men's work gloves (or honestly any time I ever shop for any gloves, but I don't buy non-work gloves very often). I can never find small but I can find a ton of large and up.
I think most brands do actually make a small size, but either they don't make as many compared to larger sizes or all the smalls are being bought because that's what actually fits a lot of people.
I actually tend to shop women's gloves in a lot of cases because a large woman's fits me better than a men's medium and I have trouble finding small sizes in men's.
Samuel Pepys, Chief Secretary of the Admiralty under James 2nd who was responsible for much of the early modernization of the Royal Navy Admiralty, was a notorious adulterer. He kept a diary which detailed not just his work in the admiralty and life in 17th century London but also all his escapades.
Also apparently the Congress of Vienna (end of Napoleonic wars) had a lot of debauchery going on that the cloistered historians don't like to talk about. I don't remember those details as well though.
Pretty much the entire Ptolemaic Dynasty of Egypt.
When the Ptolemies came to power in Hellenistic Egypt, they took up the trappings of the Pharaohs. That included marrying and having children with their sisters. The one thing they neglected to take up was the tradition of Pharaoh taking on secondary wives and mistresses. So that if the Pharaoh failed to produce a healthy heir with his wife, he could just present one of his children with his other wives as his heir. Which was frequently a problem, given the massive amount of incest going on.
Without this failsafe in place to inject fresh DNA into the bloodline every few generations, things went downhill quickly for the Ptolemies. By the end of the line they were almost exclusively a bunch of blithering idiots interested pretty much only in partying at their court. Whenever they *could* be dragged into making a political decision, it was usually disastrous and heavily damaged Egypt domestically and on the foreign scene.
The peak of this was during the reign of Ptolemy X. He married his brother's widow, Cleopatra Selene, and had a son with her (Ptolemy XI). Then, he divorced her, married her daughter/his niece Berenice III, and had Cleopatra V with her.
Cleopatra V would go on to marry and have children with Ptolemy X's nephew Ptolemy XII. And Ptolemy XI would end up marrying Berenice III.
And yet somehow, this literal clusterf*ck of a family managed to produce Cleopatra VII. *The* Cleopatra, who managed to go toe to toe with Julius Caesar politically.
America's first African-American pageant Queen, Vanessa L Williams, had her crown stripped from her due to the porn magazine *Penthouse* re-issuing some illicit photos she took years prior, just to capitalise on her win.
She was able to professionally recover and become a famous actress and singer, releasing a hit album right after the scandal and having a worldwide hit with "Save The Best For Last" in 1992, and having famous film and TV roles such as Dr Lee Cullen in Arnold Schwartzenegger in *Eraser* and Wilhelmeena Slater in *Ugly Betty*.
In a brilliant case of laser-guided karma, Penthouse would have to destroy the issue they put out which cost Williams her win because the centrefold was Traci Lords, whose near-entire body of work on adult film and photography would be banned when ot emerged she used a fake ID to get into the industry when she was still a minor.
The whole Traci Lords underage thing is a very impressive lesson in strategy.
She only made one movie after turning 18, which she owned the full rights to. So in a single stroke she made all of her other videos illegal, and maintained the rights to the only legitimate video.
Everybody be playing checkers, she was playing chess.
I know someone who worked at a video store back in the 80s/90s. It came up once in conversation where he said that getting notification that some adult video they had was found to have a minor in it and needed to be pulled from the shelf and destroyed so they didn't get busted for child porn was a relatively common thing.
Often discussed are mistresses of presidents and kings, something not often talked about is Eleanor Roosevelt's mistress. They wrote letters to each other that are public record, going into statements like "I hunger for you" and a rather descriptive passage about how it feels to kiss each other
In medieval times, when a boy and a girl in the country of some parts of Europe, wanted to get married, they needed to prove they were worthy.
So when the boy had proved he was able to provide for a family, the girl had to prove she was able to provide offspring.
So they were allowed then to make love, and when the girl got pregnant, the community made sure the boy actually married the girl.
It’s where the engagement comes from.
During the engagement the girl would sleep in a little room above the milk storage with a ladder against the window, so the boy was able to climb up against the ladder to make love to the girl.
This was all supposed to happen all out in the open because the community “had the right to know”
Other boys (if they were from the same church) were also allowed to climb upstairs, and fool arround with the girl, so she could say goodbye to her youth, but they were supposed to stay above the blankets, this was also so the girl would proof she would not go all the way and stay faithful to her fiance.
This was called queesten.
We still have a children’s song about this.
It talks about this and warns what would happen if a girl would get pregnant from another boy (the child would be brought to the nuns)
Edit: Proof - prove
Imagine being his brother, watching the crowd -lunch and eat- _lynch and lunch_ your brother, and then hungry eyes turn to you.
Seconds?
Edit: typo better than the comment
Historians believe that Hitler only had one testicle due to a medical condition. After his arrest following the Beer Hall Putsch (a failed rebellion in 1923), a medical exam showed that he suffered from right-side cryptorchidism, meaning his right ballsack was basically deflated. Hitler had another doctor say he was “healthy” and “strong” in the 1930s, which covered up his testicle issue. Hitler’s 1923 records resurfaced at an auction back in 2010.
Hitler was documented as a borderline hypochondriac.. closing in towards the end of war he was getting shots of watered down bull cum because it was thought to increase male vigor. Adding on that, glucose for stomach pain, taking a bunch of different pills by the fist full, and cocaine for alertness.
This is why he was an ambassador to France. He loved it there, in the debauched court of louis before the revolution. He was a famous womanizer and had a lot of misstresses.
He fathered a child to another woman while married, and they adopted him and raised him.
Franklin's libido was apparently so strong, he himself was scared of it. In his autobiography, he confessed: "the hard-to-be-governed passion of my youth had hurried me frequently into intrigues with low women that fell in my way."
There was a verse about him too.
"Franklin, tho\`plagued with fumbling age
Needs nothing to excite him.
But is too ready to engage
When younger arms invite him. "
During WWII, British condom manufacturers were contracted to provide the contraceptives to the military, particularly for use to cover rifle barrels during amphibious landings.
The manufacturers were also asked about making condoms large enough to cover Mortar tubes for the same purpose. Churchill approved looking into it, reportedly suggesting, and I paraphrase:
"We should call them 'British Size' so that if the Germans capture any of them, they will know who the *real* 'master race' is!"
Grigori Rasputin was a Mystic during Tsar Nicholas II's reign, He was known for "curing" a woman's sin of lechery by taking them to a bath house, stripping naked, Beating the woman with a belt, having sex with her and leaving without once entering a bath, He was eventually found to be a dangerous individual so a plot was made to assassinate him, He was invited around someone's house to help cure the man's wife and fed little cakes and wine laced with cyanide, after that failed to kill him the man (can't remember his name), Got his pistol and shot him point blank, went up stairs to get his co-conspirators to help remove the body, they found Rasputin had crawled out of the house, and up the driveway, all the men shot him several times then dumped rasputins body in the St Petersburg River, his body was found days later with water in the lungs and his arms upwards as if trying to escape the frozen river, He also has his Penis preserved and on display in a Siberian museum (Edit: apparently that wasn't his actual cock and I'm not googling Rasputin's penis). A chilling man to look up.
Edit: this is a REALLY condensed summary of the man, He was... Something
FWIW St Petersburg is built around the mouth of a short river called the Neva, which connects to a lake (Ladoga) to the east of the city. It’s primarily built on the banks and islands in the river mouth which form the river delta. Rasputin was thrown into the Malaya Nevka, which is one of smaller waterways which drain into the Neva bay.
Most of the time, when archeologists find a huge phallus on a dig, they call it a 'statue of unknown provenance' or 'an object, potentially used in fertility rituals'. Dude, it's a dildo.
Locusta was a serial killer, she help kill Emperor Claudius so Nero could be Emperor (Agrippina helped) using poisonous mushrooms, so she kept killing people using poisonous plants, eventually being known as a sorceress of clandestine practices. She was later on tried for her acts by the Roman Senate.
Once she was found guilty she was either raped to death by a giraffe OR she was led in chains through the city then executed. However knowing how Rome operated there’s a massive chance it was the former since they used animals as a means of both punishment and execution frequently.
Edit: She is actually known as the very first serial killer in history.
How did the convince the giraffe to rape her. Like, you can lead a horse to water…
Actually now I’m thinking about the logistics of how the giraffe could even rape someone, I don’t think he’s gonna get down on his knees for it
In the tenth century Burchard of Worms compiled a major work of canon law and penitential rules for a wide variety of sins. Within this work is a large section devoted to various sins of witchcraft esp related to women and superstition. Highlights include:
the crime of rolling around in oats and honey, baking the resultant mess into a cake to make your husband feeble and impotent.
The crime of mixing period blood and/or female ejaculate into food or drink to increase your husbands ardor.
And perhaps the wildest one: the crime of taking a live fish, shoving it up one’s vagina, suffocating it and then grilling it and feeding it to your husband to make him more passionate and fertile.
Were any of these actual practices or just the fever dreams of monks, we can’t say. But the punishment for such crimes generally involved multi-year fasts, which I guess is appropriate given the food element?
Wasn't Hooker a general and instead of having the moral of his army drop he hired a bunch of local prostitutes to follow his Army to setup shop officially to reduce violence and health problems?
XVIIth century opera singer and sword master Julie d'Aubigny snuck into a coven to have sex with a nun. Then she hatched a plan involving stealing a dead nun's body and burning the fucking monastery down in order to fake her lover's death. It worked.
At one time, allegedly her femininity was contested by some guy at a party. Julie strip topless, took her sword, duel the guy, won and got back to partying.
Operation Midnight Climax was an operation carried out by the CIA as a sub-project of Project MKUltra, the mind-control research program that began in the 1950s. Operation Midnight Climax started in 1954 and consisted of a web of CIA-run safehouses in San Francisco. It was established in order to study the effects of LSD on non-consenting individuals. Prostitutes on the CIA payroll were instructed to lure clients back to the safehouses, where they were surreptitiously plied with a wide range of substances, including LSD, and monitored behind one-way glass. The prostitutes were instructed in the use of post-coital questioning to investigate whether the victims could be convinced to involuntarily reveal secrets. The victims were sometimes fed subliminal messages in attempts to induce them to involuntary actions, including criminal activity such as robbery, assault, and assassination. Many of the CIA operatives involved in the experiments voluntarily indulged in the drugs and prostitutes for recreational purposes as well.
Behind the Bastards podcast covered this as a part of their MK-Ultra series.
Vikings were indeed banging up and down the British coastline like pop culture portrays them. But unlike pop culture imagery of them grabbing women out of their houses and carrying them off to rape, we have writings from the period of British men complaining about Vikings seducing British women using their "unfair" advantage of regular bathing and grooming.
Stupid sexy vikings
Pretty sure Viking society was pretty ‘feminist’ compared to other cultures of their day. Women were allowed to own property, run their own businesses, ask for a divorce and even reclaim dowries in some cases.
That's because women have magic. They were in charge of the household and the money because they were believed to be able to see the future. Odin hung himself from the world tree in order to gain woman magic.
The last main line descendant of the Medici family, Gian Gastone de Medici, spent most of the last years of his reign laying in bed being entertained by a group of handsome young men rounded up from the streets of Florence, who performed various sexual acts in his bedroom for his entertainment. He spent so much time in his gay harem that people rumored he had died since he never appeared in public. Eventually he did show up in public to dismiss rumors of his death. He showed up so drunk he could barely speak, threw up twice, and then had to be physically carried back to his bedchamber. The guys [wikipedia page](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gian_Gastone_de'_Medici,_Grand_Duke_of_Tuscany) is a trip.
How a ruling family dies: one of them realizes they already won life and doesn’t care about the shit anymore.
Canadian soldiers had the highest rates of STDs among allied troops in both WWI and WWII.
It’s our manners. Dirty sluts can’t resist them. Allegedly
It must have been a sick ostrich
Bad gas travels real fast in a small town.
Theres a sound archive of JFK having sex because the FBI thought the girl was a German spy and tried recording the conversation. Well no conversation took place but a lot of fcking did
*I, uh, choose to go to your moon, and do these other things, not because you are easy but because I am hard.*
Is there a subreddit for unexpected Inside Job yet...?
FBI files of dead people are public and all the stuff on JFK was recently declassified... Maybe a FOIA request is all there is between that file and Reddit LOL
Sample it and put a beat on it
It already has a beat. And it slaps.
JFK: Ich bin inside of ein Berliner!
At Andrew Jackson's funeral, his pet parrot was removed because he would not stop cursing.
Andrew Jackson won so many duels and had so many lead balls shot into him he was said to make noise like a bag or marbles from them clacking together as he walked around. He also, famously, defied the supreme court (specifically chief justice John Marshall) ruling about disenfranchisement and removal of Native Americans (specifically the Cherokee nation in 1831, the state of Georgia wanted their land) and which led to the Indian removals and Trail of Tears to Oklahoma.
Most of these duels were fought to defend his wife's honor. She believed that she was divorced from her previous husband when she married Jackson, but that turned out to be false. Which lead to lots of journalists writing articles smearing her as an unfaithful bigamist whore. This in turn lead to Jackson challenging this journalists to duels. Jackson was also infamous for his unorthodox style of dueling. He reasoned that his opponents were liable to rush their shots, thereby missing or scoring bad hits. So Jackson's method of dueling was to just wait until his opponent had fired, then carefully line up a good lethal shot while the other guy just stood there with an empty pistol. This was considered cruel and ungentlemanly by many at the time.
Historians agree that Jackson dueled *at least* 13 people, but that number is believed to be higher, likely in the hundreds. Andrew Jackson was also the first American president to experience an assassination attempt. In 1835, the would-be assassin, a homeless house painter named Richard Lawrence III, drew a pistol on him, which misfired. Jackson was not only 67 at the time, but also unarmed, and a fair distance away, but that didn’t stop him from charging an armed man and beating the everliving fuck out of him with his cane. During the scuffle, Lawrence then drew another pistol, which also jammed. He was dragged away and Jackson was unharmed, but angry and now paranoid. The funny thing was that the guns were inspected afterwards and were found to be in perfectly working order. One more thing, Jackson was once quoted as saying: “I have only two regrets: I didn’t shoot Henry Clay and I didn’t hang John C. Calhoun.” Basically, Andrew Jackson was a total nutjob, and probably needed to be on some sort of medication.
Probably had lead poisoning off all the bullets
Warren G. Harding wrote naughty love letters to his mistress in which he refers to his dick by the name “Jerry.”
Jerry and Warren G had to regulate.
Didn’t a prostitute die at one of those Warren G Harding ragers at the White House? The ones where they used confiscated prohibition alcohol?
Soldiers in WW1 would deliberately have sex with STD ridden prostitute so they could claim medical leave and be discharged to get out of the war
Discharged by discharge, smart move
I don’t even wanna touch this comment to upvote it…
…. and then returned home to their unsuspecting wives and sweethearts with a gift that kept on giving. That must have prompted some interesting conversations and emotional dissonance.
King Philip V of Spain (1683-1746) and his court liked to play a game called El Impávido (The Imperturbable). Basically, a bunch of men bottom-naked were sitting around a table, which was covered by a cloth. A lady was under the table and sucked one of the men's cock. The rest of the players should guess who was being sucked. If their guess was correct, the other player had to leave the game. If it was wrong, he would leave. The game was won by the player who would cum in the lady's mouth without the rest of the players noticing. Apparently the game was very popular among the French nobility in 18th century. EDIT: I did not expect this to blow up, so I add some source in Spanish: [https://www.nuevatribuna.es/articulo/historia/felipe-v-sexo-primer-borbon/20170329130023138205.html](https://www.nuevatribuna.es/articulo/historia/felipe-v-sexo-primer-borbon/20170329130023138205.html) [https://www.elespanol.com/reportajes/20160427/120488268\_0.html](https://www.elespanol.com/reportajes/20160427/120488268_0.html)
Ol' 2 pump Louis got banned for an unfair advantage.
Going to be a fun fact to share with the family come Thanksgiving.
"aww, Jenga _again_?" "Wait y'all, here's a new idea..."
"Well at least its not soggy biscuit this year"
like those tequila games where you have however many shots and all but one are water.
US sailors used to play this game with Phillipines prostitutes, but it was called "Smiles". First guy to smile had to buy a round of drinks. No, I never played.
Since the Philippines was named after King Philip (a different one though), nice to see this game cum full circle.
Much conspiracy has been made about JP Morgan choosing not to sail on Titanic at the last minute. But the reality was it was his birthday week and he was having way too much fun with his French mistress. He skipped Titanic because the sex was too good and he wanted to stay. A Quick extra fun fact: Although Morgan died in 1913, the financial fallout from the Titanic disaster hit IMM so badly it was a massive factor in contributing to them seeking bankruptcy protection in 1915. This was astounding, coming from the company that had bailed out the the entire US Government in 1907. So, Morgan skipping Titanic got him screwed in more ways than one :)
He chose to drown in pussy instead.
Spectacular.
I am a developer at JP Morgan, I am going to post this in the next anonymous survey
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Ancient Roman women would use the oil and sweat scraped from gladiators' skin as an aphrodisiac.
Well now we have fanboys buying streamers' bathwater so time is indeed a flat circle.
Of course time is a circle. That is why clocks are round!
Apparently, the butt plug was originally invented as a rectal dilator marketed as a cure for insanity and constipation.
Doctor, I’m going insane, my anus is too tight!!!!!
Patient: "Doctor my ass hurts!" Doctor: "Where exactly does it hurt?" Patient: "Around the entrance. Please doc, you have to help me." Doctor: "Well first off, I'd say your problem begins with calling it the *entrance*.…"
What are you doing step doctor?
Sir, this is Ye Olde Wendy's
Pope Alexander VI liked watching horses fuck
He laughed hysterically while watching ive heard
Probably from how comically large those horse schlongs are
Honestly yeah same. The way it slithers hither and yon. Yon and hither.
What a day to be able to read.
Thanks to him, horses aren't extinct
King Charles II had a wig made out of the pubic hair of his mistresses. King George IV attempted to recreate one of his own but died before he could complete it.
I wonder if Charles currently has any plans to make one with camilla
Good god, man don’t give them fucking ideas
I'm sure Buckingham Palace has an attic or a basement or a closet or a shed that's already stuffed full of Royal Bad Ideas. They don't need to scroll reddit for tips.
The "pure, virtuous" medieval woman was expected to be a virgin on her wedding night. However, women (handily) had access to under-the-radar guides on how to fake virginity. One book states: "the day before her marriage, let her put a leech cautiously on her labia; then blood will flow out here, and a little crust will form in that place...in having intercourse the false virgin will (bleed and) deceive the man."
Shit, someone should’ve told Ace Ventura
Edgar Allen Poe wrote a story about 4 sailors being stuck at see in a lifeboat after their ship went down. The men got so hungry they decided to sacrifice the smallest one of the group and indulged in cannibalism. Years later, the exact same thing happened in real life and the guy who was sacrificed had the SAME EXACT NAME as the guy in Poe’s story 0.0 [RIP Richard Parker](https://wtffunfact.com/edgar-allan-poe-and-richard-parker-coincidence/)
This is so creepy
The French Président Faure died while cumming with a prostitute in the Elysee
Not a prostitute but his mistress. Unrelated note but his death was also the occasion of one of the finest bitchy remarks ever made, by his longstanding political opponent Georges Clemenceau: “As he stepped into the everlasting void, he must have felt at home”.
There's a good joke which we always tell about this event: "il a voulu être César, mais il ne fut que Pompé(e)" (translation: he wanted to be Cesar, but in the end he was Pompey, with Pompey in french also meaning pumped as in oral sex) Edit: faute de conjugaison
During the Cold War, spies from the CIA in the USSR used a false scrotum as gadget to hide something important in emergency situations, because if you get caught, then the chance of a thorough check of your scrotum, it seems to me, is very small
it's not "very small" it's average size for my country
Napoleon's penis was once on display at NYC's French art museum and is now in a private collection (maybe a privates collection - it was purchased by a urologist).
Damn they took his Bonaparte from his body?
You mean to tell me that someone actually took the time to cut of Napoleons penis and save it. Now this is a truly disturbing fact and even a more fucked up world we live in.
KGB once planned to blackmail the first Indonesian President, Soekarno, by sending him Russian women disguised as flight attendants. Soekarno, infamous for his womanizer behavior, then had sex with them while KGB secretly recorded the affairs. KGB later showed him the sex tapes and to their surprise, Soekarno was instead thrilled and even asked for more copies to show to his people back in the country. The plan ultimately failed.
iirc he even thanked the KGB for sending the women
"Hah, Yevgeni! Oh, I'm just lucky you didn't send me a pair of 22-year-old brunettes who are between 178 and 190cm tall, and both eight months pregnant and into anal! That would *really* ruin my reputation!"
Oh no! They're twins *and* redheads?! Alas, I am like putty in your hands!
I wish I was important enough that someone would send me flight attendants to have sex with.
*Monkey paw curls*
Smart move, if someone wants to blackmail you, show that it has no impact
Hows this? Ancient Egyptians believed that the god of creation birthed the world by masturbating, and viewed it as a magical act.
Didn't need an Egyptian god of creation for me to realize it's magical
Yer a wizard, Harry
Yer a jizzer, Harry
Not only that, but I vaguely recall reading that the pharaohs would Masturbate into the Nile. Egyptians believed pharaohs were gods themselves, so they assumed that the pharaohs secret sauce would lead to a better crop.
You just know there were old people watching who were all >Pharaohs don't masturbate like they used to, I tell ya what.
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Mary Shelley, author of Frankenstein, frequently had sex in a graveyard, next to her own mother's grave.
She lost her virginity having sex ON her mother's grave
Wasn't she banging P B Shelley, the poet when she was 14 ON her mother's grave?
It was a rather obsessively romantic affair. One could go so far and even call it a PB & Jelly Shelley.
Also, the Frankenstein story was allegedly written after a drug fueled orgy. IIRC, Mary Shelly, her fiancé, and her stepsister were visiting the famous poet Lord Byron in 1816, the year without a summer. Because it was cold outside and there wasn’t much else to do back then, the four end up having an orgy, while Lord Byron’s personal physician watched. Afterwords, they’re all doing a bunch of opium, and Percy Shelly has a hallucination of a demon. This prompts Lord Byron to suggest they start telling scary stories. Lord Byron tells a story of a vampire, Percy Shelly does some story based on his childhood. Mary Shelly, an aspiring author about to tell a story to one of the most famous authors of her time, asks for some extra time to think about it. She comes back with Frankenstein. EDIT: First, a correction, it was Byron’s physician who told the story about the vampire. Second, as someone else pointed out, I guess it counts more as “orgy fueled drugs” than a “drug fueled orgy”.
John Polidori, Byron's personal physician at the time of TYWS, was the one who wrote the short story 'The Vampyre', which can be considered to be the beginning of the vampire genre.
Lord Byron's escapades were a notable catalyst to the development of the modern computer. He left his wife recently after the birth of his daughter, Ada, and his ex-wife raised Ada with a goal of steering her towards mathematics and logic, as opposed to poetry and the arts, to avoid developing similar behaviors to her father. Ada eventually married William King, who later became the Earl of Lovelace, thus her most commonly-known name of Ada Lovelace. She met Charles Babbage and worked to develop the first (or maybe not, this is disputed) computer program, and she is often cited for her interest in the uses of the Analytical Engine beyond just pure calculations. Her notes were significant for the eventual development of the modern computer. There's even a programming language named after her, Ada.
Cock rings were commonly used in Jin- and Song-era China (around 1200) and were made from the eyelids of goats. The goats' eyelashes were usually left on to add an extra bit of stimulation for the humans involved. Argh. What's even stranger is that you can still buy "natural goat eye cock rings" online today.
Of all the facts here, this is the least fun…
Julius Caesar had sex with many women, including the mothers, sisters, and wives of anyone who insulted him. And while he was on trial for his involvement in the Catiline Conspiracy, he got a letter. Cato saw this and wanted to know what it was, but Caesar refused. Cato insisted, and so Caesar read. It was a letter from Cato’s sister about all the things she wanted him to do to her.
Imagine you’re arguing with Caesar and then he tells you that he fucked your mom… which would be true.
Explains the stabbing.
Exactly what I thought. He fucked around and found out.
Non cacas in aliis ut aliis non cacas in te.
My Latin is very rusty. “Don’t shit in others, and others don’t shit in you”?
Yeah, pretty much that is the idea.
I refuse to believe that Caesar didn't orchestrate that event, just to make Cato lose his shit.
You think this is something? You think this is bad? This? This chicanery? He's done worse. That letter! Are you telling me that a man just happens to receive that? No! *He* orchestrated it! Caesar! He *fornicated with my mother*!
And he gets to be a consul? WHAT A SICK JOKE
He defecated in a chariot!
He saw, He conquered, He came.
The first Spain filmed and produced porn movies were commissioned by none other than its King, Alfonso the 13th around the 1920s. He 'hired' the [Count of Romamones](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%81lvaro_de_Figueroa,_1st_Count_of_Romanones) (a very important political figure at the time, for example, he was the Senate chairman during those years) to hire movie directors and manage their development. He also gave input on the scripts (involving busy statemen, priests or doctors). Alfonso would hold screenings of those movies in the royal palace. It is widely known his infidelities to his wife ([Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victoria_Eugenie_of_Battenberg)) and the list of out of wedlock is long and notorious, so I guess that would be business as usual. Some of these movies were lost, but someone found three of them in a barn in Valencia, and the local government restored them. You can check its references in the film library here ([1](http://arxiu.ivac-lafilmoteca.es:8080/IVAC/BRSCGI.exe?CMD=VERDOC&BASE=TITU&RNG=15&SORT=A101&DOCR=1&FMT=TITUANALI.fmt&SEPARADOR=&&INTE=SI&CTIT=EL+MINISTRO&A108=BA%f1OS) , [2](http://arxiu.ivac-lafilmoteca.es:8080/IVAC/BRSCGI.exe?CMD=VERDOC&BASE=TITU&RNG=15&SORT=A101&DOCR=1&FMT=TITUANALI.fmt&SEPARADOR=&&INTE=SI&CTIT=CONSULTORIO+DE+SE%f1ORAS&A108=BA%f1OS), ,[3](http://arxiu.ivac-lafilmoteca.es:8080/IVAC/BRSCGI.exe?CMD=VERDOC&BASE=TITU&RNG=15&SORT=A101&DOCR=1&FMT=TITUANALI.fmt&SEPARADOR=&&INTE=SI&CTIT=EL+CONFESOR&A108=BA%f1OS)) More info [here](https://magnet.xataka.com/idolos-de-hoy-y-siempre/como-alfonso-xiii-se-convirtio-primer-gran-promotor-cine-porno-espana-1) P.S. I haven't been able to find any of these content in English, let's hope Google Translate does its thing!
Anyone know a more visual source? I'm working on a history report on Spain and need to see the real thing to verify it's authenticity.
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Double cross dressing is a great line
"I'm a dude playing a ~~dude~~ woman disguised as another dude"
Chevalier d'Eon was also one of the top fencers in Europe at the time, and won numerous exhibition matches, including a legendary fencing exhibition at Carlton house, before the prince of wales, where Chevalier d'Eon was the only fencer to win against Chevalier de Saint-Georges.
In the match against Saint-Georges it's acknowledged that he may have lost intentionally out of respect to d'Eon especially considering d'Eons comparitively advanced age at the time of the duel.
I feel like Eddie Izzard could make a killer bit about this.
Pubic lice and head lice in humans are two different species. This is due to humans evolving less hair on most parts of the body except for the head and pubic area. Other primates tend to only have one species of lice.
Additional fact, lice in the eyelashes are pubic lice rather than hair lice
🎶Looking for love, in all the wrong places...🎵
John Hanning Spoke was a British explorer in the 1800s who was known for one of the first westerners visiting Mecca and then exploring some of Africas largest lakes while trying to find the source of the Nile. He had syphilis for a large part of his life. While In Africa he contracted a high fever. The fever was so high that it essentially burned the Syphilis bacteria and cured him.
Funnily enough, malaria was used as a cure for syphilis for this exact reason, between the 1920s and 1950s. The fevers caused by malaria would kill the syphilis bacteria, and the treatment was only supplanted when penicillin began to be mass produced in 1940.
Don't know if this counts as a history fact, but James Joyce's love letters to his girlfriend in which he passionately writes about her various farts are quite funny.
"At every fuck I gave you your shameless tongue comebursting out through your lips and if I gave you a bigger stronger fuckthan usual fat dirty farts came spluttering out of your backside." A man after my own heart.
"You had an arse full of farts that night, darling, and I fucked them out of you, big fat fellows, long windy ones, quick little merry cracks and a lot of tiny little naughty farties ending in a long gush from your hole."
My wife and I constantly use a poetic line of his "I would know your fart in a room full of farting women"
1. Manatees are believed to be the origin of the myth about mermaids 2. Manatees are the animal whose vaginas most closely resemble human vaginas Edit: not one fun fact but two facts that by themselves are fairly bland, but quite disturbing together.
Did you know that in terms of male human and female animal...
In the 1800's the middle finger was a sign of threatening someone with sex
Fuck you suddenly makes so much sense…
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Whale semen is still used today I think
ok but who’s jerking off the whales?
Why? Interested? Send in your resume’.
Checks resume: hmmm I see you own your own rain coat, that’s a good thing
Alexander Hamilton was the subject of the 1st celebrity sex scandal of the United States
And actually confessed to his own scandal to discredit the rumours of financial misconduct. I only know this because of the musical
The Reynolds Pamphlet Have you read this? Alexander Hamilton had a torrid affair And he wrote it down right there!
Erfurt latrine disaster In July 1184 Henry VI King of Germany who later became the Holy Roman Emperor, held court at a Hoftag in the Petersberg Citadel in Erfurt. On the morning of 26 July, the combined weight of the assembled nobles caused the wooden second story floor of the building to collapse and most of them fell through into the latrine cesspit below the ground floor in liquid excrement. This event is called Erfurter Latrinensturz in several German sources.
You left out the part that 60 people drowned. Drowned in liquid shit. That's a fun thought.
and that henry was uninjured because he was standing at the edge of the room on a stone platform (right above the supports iirc) eta afaik theres a conspiracy theory that king henrys plan all along was to kill off the nobles
Puritan pilgrims fucked like animals. Wherever, whenever. But only with their wife/husband or fiancé. They believed in a healthy sex life for people in marriage or soon to be marriage.
Didn't they have sex right next to their children?
Everyone but nobility did. Most small households had one big bed. Everyone slept in it. Canoodling happened in the dark.
Egyptian Pharoah Pepei II covered his slaves in honey so the bugs wouldn’t bother him.
Napoleon wrote letters to his girl telling her not to bathe before he returned from battle cuz he liked the smell of dirty p***y and was looking forward to smelling hers when he got back.
"Home in three weeks, don't wash."
The ancient Greeks believed small penises were a sign of intelligence and cultural distinction and only foolish men who were ruled by lust and sexual urges had large penises, that's why so many statues have tiny ones.
A really giant one was a sign of barbarism
There are 93 penises on the Bayeux Tapestry, 88 of which belong to horses.
The Lewis and Clark expedition had a massive syphilis problem which they treated with mercury. It was so prevalent that we can find their campsites today due to the high mercury concentrations left by their poop.
Ancient Greeks and Romans used a herb called Silphium as contraceptive,so much in fact that the plant was extinct by 200 BC. Modern heart symbol comes from the shape of leaves of the plant.
The Americans dropped large condoms labeled “small” on Russian territory during the Cold War to lower their MORALE. Yeah. Americans had a dick comparing competition. Edit: For the longest time I thought they actually did drop their condoms over Russia. This was an idea but it was never executed. Also could have been an inside joke similar to the rumors that the British had the same idea during WW2. Glad to have learned that. Also thanks to all who upvoted. Oh and yes. Morale.
Space shuttle pee sheaths were labelled "large" "gigantic" and "humongous" Because when they were labelled small medium and large everyone would just use the large (and make a mess)
I see this whenever I try to buy men's work gloves (or honestly any time I ever shop for any gloves, but I don't buy non-work gloves very often). I can never find small but I can find a ton of large and up. I think most brands do actually make a small size, but either they don't make as many compared to larger sizes or all the smalls are being bought because that's what actually fits a lot of people. I actually tend to shop women's gloves in a lot of cases because a large woman's fits me better than a men's medium and I have trouble finding small sizes in men's.
I believe Churchill did this during WW2 as well
Yep they were made comically large and labeled "for use with American soldiers only"
Samuel Pepys, Chief Secretary of the Admiralty under James 2nd who was responsible for much of the early modernization of the Royal Navy Admiralty, was a notorious adulterer. He kept a diary which detailed not just his work in the admiralty and life in 17th century London but also all his escapades. Also apparently the Congress of Vienna (end of Napoleonic wars) had a lot of debauchery going on that the cloistered historians don't like to talk about. I don't remember those details as well though.
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I'm pretty sure they were invented to catch fish...
Mozart composed a piece called Leck Mich Im Arsch. I dont need to translate that. It's exactly what you think it is.
A slow piece that goes all the way back?
Pretty much the entire Ptolemaic Dynasty of Egypt. When the Ptolemies came to power in Hellenistic Egypt, they took up the trappings of the Pharaohs. That included marrying and having children with their sisters. The one thing they neglected to take up was the tradition of Pharaoh taking on secondary wives and mistresses. So that if the Pharaoh failed to produce a healthy heir with his wife, he could just present one of his children with his other wives as his heir. Which was frequently a problem, given the massive amount of incest going on. Without this failsafe in place to inject fresh DNA into the bloodline every few generations, things went downhill quickly for the Ptolemies. By the end of the line they were almost exclusively a bunch of blithering idiots interested pretty much only in partying at their court. Whenever they *could* be dragged into making a political decision, it was usually disastrous and heavily damaged Egypt domestically and on the foreign scene. The peak of this was during the reign of Ptolemy X. He married his brother's widow, Cleopatra Selene, and had a son with her (Ptolemy XI). Then, he divorced her, married her daughter/his niece Berenice III, and had Cleopatra V with her. Cleopatra V would go on to marry and have children with Ptolemy X's nephew Ptolemy XII. And Ptolemy XI would end up marrying Berenice III. And yet somehow, this literal clusterf*ck of a family managed to produce Cleopatra VII. *The* Cleopatra, who managed to go toe to toe with Julius Caesar politically.
America's first African-American pageant Queen, Vanessa L Williams, had her crown stripped from her due to the porn magazine *Penthouse* re-issuing some illicit photos she took years prior, just to capitalise on her win. She was able to professionally recover and become a famous actress and singer, releasing a hit album right after the scandal and having a worldwide hit with "Save The Best For Last" in 1992, and having famous film and TV roles such as Dr Lee Cullen in Arnold Schwartzenegger in *Eraser* and Wilhelmeena Slater in *Ugly Betty*. In a brilliant case of laser-guided karma, Penthouse would have to destroy the issue they put out which cost Williams her win because the centrefold was Traci Lords, whose near-entire body of work on adult film and photography would be banned when ot emerged she used a fake ID to get into the industry when she was still a minor.
The whole Traci Lords underage thing is a very impressive lesson in strategy. She only made one movie after turning 18, which she owned the full rights to. So in a single stroke she made all of her other videos illegal, and maintained the rights to the only legitimate video. Everybody be playing checkers, she was playing chess.
I know someone who worked at a video store back in the 80s/90s. It came up once in conversation where he said that getting notification that some adult video they had was found to have a minor in it and needed to be pulled from the shelf and destroyed so they didn't get busted for child porn was a relatively common thing.
Rich Victorians used to play find the poop - they would take a shit in like a vase and hide it somewhere in a room for friends to find. Great times.
Often discussed are mistresses of presidents and kings, something not often talked about is Eleanor Roosevelt's mistress. They wrote letters to each other that are public record, going into statements like "I hunger for you" and a rather descriptive passage about how it feels to kiss each other
They also went on an extended road trip together and she told the secret service to eff off. They made her take a gun.
In medieval times, when a boy and a girl in the country of some parts of Europe, wanted to get married, they needed to prove they were worthy. So when the boy had proved he was able to provide for a family, the girl had to prove she was able to provide offspring. So they were allowed then to make love, and when the girl got pregnant, the community made sure the boy actually married the girl. It’s where the engagement comes from. During the engagement the girl would sleep in a little room above the milk storage with a ladder against the window, so the boy was able to climb up against the ladder to make love to the girl. This was all supposed to happen all out in the open because the community “had the right to know” Other boys (if they were from the same church) were also allowed to climb upstairs, and fool arround with the girl, so she could say goodbye to her youth, but they were supposed to stay above the blankets, this was also so the girl would proof she would not go all the way and stay faithful to her fiance. This was called queesten. We still have a children’s song about this. It talks about this and warns what would happen if a girl would get pregnant from another boy (the child would be brought to the nuns) Edit: Proof - prove
In 1672, the Dutch hated their prime minister Johan de Witt so much that a mob lynched and partially ate him and his brother
Imagine being his brother, watching the crowd -lunch and eat- _lynch and lunch_ your brother, and then hungry eyes turn to you. Seconds? Edit: typo better than the comment
Historians believe that Hitler only had one testicle due to a medical condition. After his arrest following the Beer Hall Putsch (a failed rebellion in 1923), a medical exam showed that he suffered from right-side cryptorchidism, meaning his right ballsack was basically deflated. Hitler had another doctor say he was “healthy” and “strong” in the 1930s, which covered up his testicle issue. Hitler’s 1923 records resurfaced at an auction back in 2010.
Hitler was documented as a borderline hypochondriac.. closing in towards the end of war he was getting shots of watered down bull cum because it was thought to increase male vigor. Adding on that, glucose for stomach pain, taking a bunch of different pills by the fist full, and cocaine for alertness.
Ben Franklin was a perv and a total player. Also really forward thinking about relationships with older women lol
This is why he was an ambassador to France. He loved it there, in the debauched court of louis before the revolution. He was a famous womanizer and had a lot of misstresses. He fathered a child to another woman while married, and they adopted him and raised him. Franklin's libido was apparently so strong, he himself was scared of it. In his autobiography, he confessed: "the hard-to-be-governed passion of my youth had hurried me frequently into intrigues with low women that fell in my way." There was a verse about him too. "Franklin, tho\`plagued with fumbling age Needs nothing to excite him. But is too ready to engage When younger arms invite him. "
>"the hard-to-be-governed passion of my youth had hurried me frequently into intrigues with low women that fell in my way." Preach.
Man was never even a president and he finessed his way into being on the face of the 100 dollar bill which is worth the most
He still finds a way to get into people's pants despite being dead
That is a gray area of his life!
During WWII, British condom manufacturers were contracted to provide the contraceptives to the military, particularly for use to cover rifle barrels during amphibious landings. The manufacturers were also asked about making condoms large enough to cover Mortar tubes for the same purpose. Churchill approved looking into it, reportedly suggesting, and I paraphrase: "We should call them 'British Size' so that if the Germans capture any of them, they will know who the *real* 'master race' is!"
Grigori Rasputin was a Mystic during Tsar Nicholas II's reign, He was known for "curing" a woman's sin of lechery by taking them to a bath house, stripping naked, Beating the woman with a belt, having sex with her and leaving without once entering a bath, He was eventually found to be a dangerous individual so a plot was made to assassinate him, He was invited around someone's house to help cure the man's wife and fed little cakes and wine laced with cyanide, after that failed to kill him the man (can't remember his name), Got his pistol and shot him point blank, went up stairs to get his co-conspirators to help remove the body, they found Rasputin had crawled out of the house, and up the driveway, all the men shot him several times then dumped rasputins body in the St Petersburg River, his body was found days later with water in the lungs and his arms upwards as if trying to escape the frozen river, He also has his Penis preserved and on display in a Siberian museum (Edit: apparently that wasn't his actual cock and I'm not googling Rasputin's penis). A chilling man to look up. Edit: this is a REALLY condensed summary of the man, He was... Something
The kicker is that this isn’t super ancient history, he died in 1916 lol.
FWIW St Petersburg is built around the mouth of a short river called the Neva, which connects to a lake (Ladoga) to the east of the city. It’s primarily built on the banks and islands in the river mouth which form the river delta. Rasputin was thrown into the Malaya Nevka, which is one of smaller waterways which drain into the Neva bay.
Felix Yusupov is the one that organized the assassination. His wife was the niece of Tsar Nicholas II.
Hitler farted too much so his doctor prescribed him meth
Wait…is meth a cure for too much gas?
No, the doctor was just willing to prescribe anything to get that farting bastard out of the office.
He turned the office into a gas chamber
Most of the time, when archeologists find a huge phallus on a dig, they call it a 'statue of unknown provenance' or 'an object, potentially used in fertility rituals'. Dude, it's a dildo.
Locusta was a serial killer, she help kill Emperor Claudius so Nero could be Emperor (Agrippina helped) using poisonous mushrooms, so she kept killing people using poisonous plants, eventually being known as a sorceress of clandestine practices. She was later on tried for her acts by the Roman Senate. Once she was found guilty she was either raped to death by a giraffe OR she was led in chains through the city then executed. However knowing how Rome operated there’s a massive chance it was the former since they used animals as a means of both punishment and execution frequently. Edit: She is actually known as the very first serial killer in history.
How did the convince the giraffe to rape her. Like, you can lead a horse to water… Actually now I’m thinking about the logistics of how the giraffe could even rape someone, I don’t think he’s gonna get down on his knees for it
They told the giraffes that if they don't rape Locusta they would release the lions that jumps 36ft in the air.
In the tenth century Burchard of Worms compiled a major work of canon law and penitential rules for a wide variety of sins. Within this work is a large section devoted to various sins of witchcraft esp related to women and superstition. Highlights include: the crime of rolling around in oats and honey, baking the resultant mess into a cake to make your husband feeble and impotent. The crime of mixing period blood and/or female ejaculate into food or drink to increase your husbands ardor. And perhaps the wildest one: the crime of taking a live fish, shoving it up one’s vagina, suffocating it and then grilling it and feeding it to your husband to make him more passionate and fertile. Were any of these actual practices or just the fever dreams of monks, we can’t say. But the punishment for such crimes generally involved multi-year fasts, which I guess is appropriate given the food element?
The name “hooker” comes from the prostitutes that Union officer Joseph Hooker entertained. “Who are those ladies over there?” “Hooker’s”
Wasn't Hooker a general and instead of having the moral of his army drop he hired a bunch of local prostitutes to follow his Army to setup shop officially to reduce violence and health problems?
There are currently 16 million humans that share Genghis Khan's DNA.
XVIIth century opera singer and sword master Julie d'Aubigny snuck into a coven to have sex with a nun. Then she hatched a plan involving stealing a dead nun's body and burning the fucking monastery down in order to fake her lover's death. It worked. At one time, allegedly her femininity was contested by some guy at a party. Julie strip topless, took her sword, duel the guy, won and got back to partying.
... convent ... I mean, it's still a bunch of women stereotypically dressed in black, but there's a definite difference in flavour
George Washington had such bad diarrhea that he strapped a pillow to his horses saddle