10 Weird Things Our Ancestors Did
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Blackened Teeth
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ohaguro
http://www.daria.com.sg/the-black-teeth-fad-fashional-black-teeth-in-history/
Post Mortem Portraits
https://listverse.com/2012/10/24/memento-mori-victorian-death-photos/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-mortem_photography
Uranium Sitting
http://www.weirduniverse.net/blog/comments/uranium_dirt_sitting_houses
https://books.google.com/books?id=PFUEAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PA18&dq=contest&pg=PA57#v=onepage&q&f=false
Catching Tears
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tear_catcher
Viking Fire Urine
https://www.primalsurvivor.net/tinder-fungus-firestarter/
http://www.vikinganswerlady.com/fire.shtml
The touchwood fungus is shaped somewhat like a horse's foot, with a diameter of from 6 to 10 inches. It is soft like velvet when young, but afterwards becomes hard and woody. It usually rests immediately upon the bark of the tree, without any supporting foot-stalk. On the upper surface, it is smooth, but marked with circular ridges of different colours, more or less brown or blackish. On the under surface, it is whitish or yellowish and full of small pores; internally, it is fibrous, tough and of a tawny brown colour. It is composed of short, tubular fibres, compactly arranged in layers, one of which is added every year.
Touchwood was collected in Europe in August and September, chiefly from oak and beech, the best being from oak. The substance was then prepared for use by removing the exterior rind and cutting the inner part into thin slices, which were washed first in weak alkali, then in water and then beaten with a hammer and worked until they become a soft, pliable felt-like material that could be easily torn by the fingers. For making tinder, the felt-like material was charred in exactly the same way that charcloth is made, and then soaked in "strong urine" where it was boiled for several days. Urine contains sodium nitrate, which is very similar to the potassium nitrate ("saltpeter") found in gunpowder. The difference is that sodium nitrate tends to be more hygroscopic (absorbs moisture more readily) than saltpeter.
Chinese Footbinding
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foot_binding
http://www.businessinsider.com/the-disturbing-reason-for-the-ancient-chinese-practice-of-foot-binding-2015-9
Ancient India Plastic Surgery
http://columbiasurgery.org/news/2015/05/28/history-medicine-ancient-indian-nose-jobs-origins-plastic-surgery
https://listverse.com/2014/04/06/10-surprising-facts-about-the-ancient-world/
Greek/Rome Sponge on a Stick
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xylospongium
http://alphahistory.com/pastpeculiar/64-suicide-by-toilet-brush/
Greek/ Rome Crocodile Beauty Bath (Also a contraseption
https://books.google.com/books?id=hbIshkZAf0EC&pg=PT69&lpg=PT69#v=onepage&q&f=false
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-12540/When-crocodile-dung-contraception.html
The Alexandra Limp
http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-magazine-monitor-28357269
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandra_of_Denmark
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