facts verse presents eight things people
in history did that would be totally
weird today
number one shaving off your eyebrows to
mourn a dead cat today when a cat dies
the owner will often cry some have their
cats cremated and they hold on to the
ashes this was not the case in ancient
Egypt the ancient Egyptians worshipped
their cats the goddess Bastet was the
goddess of homes cats and fertility and
it was believed that she was a cat if a
cat went into your house in ancient
Egypt it was considered good luck if you
killed a cat it was considered to be
sacrilege and you could be sentenced to
death for doing that when a person's cat
would die in ancient Egypt the owner
would shave off their eyebrows in
mourning this is something that we would
never do today number two the first boob
jobs today breast augmentation is very
common and it's considered a minor
surgery all that's necessary for today's
boob jobs are saline or silicone
implants breast implants were not always
that simple though the first surgery was
performed in 1895 by a doctor named
Vince's surname Bank man doctors would
use glass balls ivory ground rubber and
stones to pack the tissue to make a
woman's breasts look fuller and plumper
today putting those materials in the
human body would be unheard of probably
illegal most of these materials can't be
sterilized and you would likely end up
with a serious infection after the
surgery number three dyeing your hair
was dangerous today you can walk into a
store and purchase a box of hair dye
that is completely safe and won't cause
you any harm
the only risk of dyeing your hair today
is choosing the wrong shade of color in
the seventeen hundreds and eighteen
hundreds
dyeing your hair wasn't so safe the
ancient Romans and ancient Greeks would
mix chemicals such as lead and lye in
their hair to achieve the desired color
result these chemicals put women at
risk of lead poisoning and other
infections today these hair color
products would be banned and removed
immediately from the shelves number four
communal bathrooms today the only people
who share a bathroom are usually people
who share a home even when you're in
public you get a private stall back in
ancient Rome things were much different
only the very wealthy were able to
afford a private bathroom those who
didn't have the money for a private
bathroom would use public lavatories and
it was a social experience people
actually enjoyed using the public
bathrooms and there was no embarrassment
at all people would just sit in the
public bathroom facing one another
having a nice conversation while they
did their business number five drilling
holes into your brain today if you
suffer from any type of mental issue
you're often given medication and you
would see a psychiatrist or a
psychologist if you have a mental
disability there are certain things that
can be done to make your day-to-day life
easier that was not the case in medieval
times though if you were suffering from
a mental issue or a mental disability
doctors believed that you had to have
the bad spirits extracted from your
brain it was believed that the cause of
the problem was spirits or demons and
the only way for them to be released was
to drill a hole into your head in
medicine today these are called burr
holes and it's only done if you have
endured a brain injury and the doctors
need to drill holes to relieve the
pressure in order to save your life
holes are never drilled today to help
with any type of mental issues or
disabilities if a doctor today suggested
drilling holes in a person's head
because they were depressed the doctor
would immediately lose his license
number six women weren't allowed to cry
at funerals in ancient Rome funerals
were considered to be elaborate formal
Affairs in order for the deceased to be
mourned over they were hired to cry
scratch their faces and rip out their
hair until they began bleeding it wasn't
long before that was considered too
extreme for funerals and new laws were
created under the new law women weren't
allowed to cry at funerals
at all even if the person who died was a
woman's child or husband they were still
not allowed to cry they had to wait
until they were home alone to grieve
over their loved one today if a woman
doesn't cry at the funeral of her spouse
or a child they're considered strange or
unfeeling number seven Roman Fathers
could kill their daughters lovers today
there are many fathers who would love to
kill their daughter's boyfriends however
since this would land them in jail for a
very long time most fathers ignore their
need to kill but in ancient Rome it was
legal if the father deemed it necessary
women weren't allowed to have relations
outside of marriage even after marriage
women were still bound to their father's
family if a woman committed any act of
infidelity or if she did anything to
embarrass the family in the family name
her father could legally kill her this
murderous practice was eventually put to
an end and murder is illegal regardless
of the reason number 8 animal poop was
used in medicine of the eight things
people in history did that would be
totally weird today this is probably the
most disgusting today animal poop has no
place in the medical community it's
dirty
unsanitary and teeming with bacteria
this was not always the case in ancient
Rome people used crocodile dung as birth
control in Scotland sheep poop was used
to treat smallpox in ancient Egypt pig
poop was used to treat warriors wounds
it was also used to treat nosebleeds
fortunately over the years it was
discovered that animal poop could not
treat diseases in fact the animal poop
would just make the patient's condition
worse
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