By Sami on September 28th, 2009

Vanity is a billion dollar industry. Together, cosmetic surgery, beauty conglomerates, and fashion houses create the fourth largest economy on the planet. Catering to human vanity isn’t a recent phenomenon though; Mesopotamian men spent hours with curling irons to create elaborate rings in their beards. The following 7 historic figures took the search for attractiveness to extremes that few have been able to match. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: Bizarre, Explorers, Features, History, Lists, Murderers, Occult, People, Royalty, Scientists, WTF
By Sami on July 29th, 2009

Most of the stories we grew up hearing about Africans, Polynesians, and other “savages” eating colonists were exaggerated blood libels used to justify enslaving them. The following are 10 incidents of cannibalism. They delve into the cultures that practiced it, tell the stories of a few murdering cannibals, and also of some extreme situations where people were driven to eat their fellow man in order to survive.
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Tags: Death, Features, History, Lists, Murderers, People, Perverts, Royalty, Sex, Society, Tribes, Warriors