1. The Ottoman Empire’s Sultan Ibrahim I had
280 of his concubines drowned in the ocean
after one of them slept with another man

2. In medieval times people were put to death
for being witches. One anthropologist
conjectures as many as 600,000 “witches”
lost their lives .

3. Mexican General Santa Anna had an
elaborate state funeral for his amputated leg.
4. Tens of thousands of baby girls were
abandoned each year in China because of the
country’s one-child policy.

5. Before the mid-19th century dentures
were commonly made with teeth pulled from
the mouths of dead soldiers.
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6. Roman Emperor Gaius made his beloved
horse a senator.

7. Ice age Britons used skulls of the dead as
cups

8. After Pope Gregory IX associated cats with
devil worship , cats throughout Europe were
exterminated in droves.

9. This sudden lack of cats led to the spread
of disease because infected rats ran free.
The most devastating of these diseases, the
Bubonic Plague, killed 100 million people

10. The Aztecs made human sacrifices to the
gods . In 1487, at the dedication of the
temple in Tenochtitlan, 20,000 people were
put to death.

11. The Mayans also made sacrifices. The
most common involved pulling a still-beating
heart out of a victim’s chest.

12. In the 13th century 30,000 children went
on what is known as the Children’s Crusade .
They were convinced God would allow them
to take back the Holy Land without incident,
but most died on the journey or were sold
into slavery.

13. In ancient Egypt, servants were smeared
with honey in order to attract flies away from
the pharaoh.

14. Upon dying, some pharaohs were sealed
into their tombs alongside their living
servants, pets, and concubines.
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15. The Romans used human urine as
mouthwash.

16. In 1788 the Austrian army attacked itself
and lost 10,000 men

17. Before becoming pope, Pius II wrote a
popular erotic book , The Tale of Two Lovers

18. People were buried alive so often in the
19th century that inventors patented safety
coffins that would give the “dead” the ability
to alert those above ground if they were still
alive.

19. Approximately 750,000 men died in the
Civil War , which was more than 2.5% of
America’s population at the time.
20. In Medieval times the accused often faced
a “trial by ordeal ,” where they were forced to
stick their arm into a vat of boiling water. If
their arm emerged unscathed, it was believed
God protected them, thus proving their
innocence.

21. Animals were put on trial in medieval
times and routinely sentenced to death.
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22. Beginning in 1909 (and continuing into the
1970s), the Australian government instituted
a policy of removing Aboriginal children from
their parents and teaching them to reject
their Aboriginality.

23. In the 1970s Pol Pot’s communist regime
brainwashed thousands of Cambodian children
into becoming soldiers who committed mass
murders and other atrocities.

24. Japanese samurais disemboweled
themselves with their sword ( an act known as
seppuko ) when in danger of being captured.
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25. New research suggests that 15–20 million
people were murdered or imprisoned by the
Nazis during the Holocaust, much more than
previously believed.

26. Joseph Stalin, the dictator of the USSR
from 1929–1953, is believed to have killed
between 20-60 million people

27. Between 1525 and 1866, 12.5 million
Africans were kidnapped and sold into slavery
in the United States, Caribbean, and South
America.

28. The introduction of Europeans to the New
World saw the Native American population
drop from an estimated 12 million in 1500 to
barely 237,000 in 1900.

29. In the 19th century a popular medicine
for kids, “ Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup,”
included morphine.

30. In 1917, Margaret Sanger was jailed for
one month for establishing the first birth
control clinic.

31. In Venice during the Renaissance there
was a case where a rapist was given the
choice of going to jail for six months, paying
a fine, or marrying his victim. He chose
marriage.

32. Chairman Mao Zedong killed 45 million
people during China’s “Great Leap Forward”
from 1958–1962.

33. Peter the Great executed his wife’s lover,
then forced her to keep her lover’s head in a
jar of alcohol in her bedroom

34. In 16th-century Canada,omen drank a
potion with beaver testicles ground into it as
a form of contraception.
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35. Genghis Khan killed 40 million people
across Asia and Europe


36. In the 16th and 17th century wealthy
Europeans ate corpses thinking they’d cure
them of ailments.

37. They even ate the remains of Egyptian
mummies, which tomb raiders risked their
lives to steal.

38. In the 15th century Romanian ruler Vlad
the Impaler impaled 20,000 Ottoman Turks
on long, sharp poles on the banks of the
Danube.

39. Vlad also enjoyed sopping up his enemies’
blood with bread and eating it. This disturbing
practice, along with his family name of
Dracula and birthplace of Transylvania,
inspired Bram Stoker’s Dracula .

40. African-American men were not deemed
equal members of the Mormon Church until
1978.

41. South Africans gave gay and lesbian
soldiers sex changes in an attempt to root
out homosexuality in their army.
42. In early Rome a father could legally kill
anyone in his family.

43. After finding a 36,000 year old steppe
bison preserved in the ice, Alaskan zoology
professor R. Dale Guthrie and his team ate
some of its flesh . Guthrie said “the meat was
well aged but still a little tough.”

44. Child killer and rapist Pedro Lopez, known
as “The Monster of the Andes,” was
convicted in 1983 of killing 110 young girls
(though he confessed to killing 300).

45. Lopez was released in 1998 after serving
Ecuador’s maximum sentence of 20 years. His
whereabouts are presently unknown.

46. The Roman Emperor Commodus collected
all the disabled and little people he could find
and ordered them to fight each other to the
death with meat cleavers in the Colosseum.

47. Prior to the 1960s tobacco companies
ran physician-endorsed ads that suggested
smoking had health benefits.

48.Soviet biologist Ilya Ivanovic
attempted to impregnate a chimpanzee with
human sperm , but failed in his quest to make
a “humanzee.”

49. In 755 A.D. the An Lushan rebellion
against the Chinese Tang Dynasty resulted in
36 million deaths, or one-sixth of the entire
world population.

50. In colonial America pregnant women didn’t
receive painkillers during delivery because
pain was considered God’s punishment for
Eve’s eating the forbidden fruit.

51. Saddam Hussein was given the key to the
city of Detroit.

kai!!!!!!

16 would have to be the greatest mistake ever made on earth. ..

No 20 is good for our politicians!

Most for us to learn from.
Op pls add Nigeria repeats history after 32years and get the same suffering.

Oliviaxx:

isn't it wonderful?