Fascinating + horrifying = this list.
The arsenic-based dye that killed people in the 1800s:
The Wellcome Library
The suspicious beauty marks people put on their faces in the 1700s:
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The clothes women wore in the 1800s that made them catch fire all the damn time:
Fire at the Ballet, Continental Theater, Philadelphia, September 14, 1861, detail / Via House Divided: The Civil War Research Engine at Dickinson College, hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu
The mummy of Eva Perón:
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The sneakers with a cult following that were actually worn by a cult:
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The women factory workers who painted watches with radium and suffered horrific deaths:
Leonard Grossman / Via lgrossman.com
The outrageous fashions worn by young people whose relatives were killed in the French Revolution:
Claude-Louis Desrais / Via Wikimedia Commons
The desecrated corpse turned sex doll stolen by a German hospital worker in the 20th century:
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