Death is an opportunity no longer to be the human individual with all his or her troubles - Arthur Schopenhauer

Most men die at 27, we just bury them at 72.' —Mark Twain

Anton Leeuwenhoek, the father of microscopy, used his invention (the microscope) on his own sperm after one night with his wife. Sperm was unknown at the time and he thought they were little people

Nicholas II and his wife Empress Alexandra Feodorovna's letters to each other are quite steamy. Something you don't hear often, is that Alexandra collected merkins AKA pubic wigs.

The CIA gave unsuspecting civilians LSD and then observed their interactions with hookers (paid informants) while under the influence, for experimental purposes. This operation was called Midnight Climax

It used to be thought that blowing smoke up someone's ass was a way to revive them. Some swimming pools actually had a kit, with a bellows type device, the blow smoke up the ass of a drowning victim.

Egyptian women used crocodile poo as a contraceptive.they shoved it up their vagina to block the sperm,and because it was acidic,it killed the sperm. It worked!

Romans executed criminals in the Colosseum through myth recreations. A woman met a horrifying fate with a trained bull (Pasiphae). A man, like Icarus, was thrown with wings across the Colosseum. Another, inspired by Orpheus, played an instrument before being torn apart by animals

The Battle of Cannae in 216 BC saw Rome lose as many soldiers as the entire US casualties in Vietnam. With a much smaller world population, this single day accounted for 20% of Rome's adult male population.

Ammonia-rich fumes from a castle's toilet system were used to delouse clothes inside special closets.

In July 1184, King Henry VI of Germany held court in Erfurt. The floor of Peterskirche collapsed during a gathering, causing nobles to fall into a latrine below. Around 60 drowned in excrement. #MedievalMisfortune

After Napoleon’s death, it’s been alleged that his penis was cut off and sold and exhibited through the early 20th century. It was described in 1927 as resembling a “piece of leather” or a “shriveled eel”

Napoleon's wife had a friend who was known as 'Government property' because she had banged so many ministers of state.

After her ninth child, Queen Victoria's doctor advised her not to have anymore. She responded with 'Oh Sir James (doctor), am I not to have anymore fun in bed!'.

The founding fathers wouldn't let Benjamin Franklin work on the Declaration Of Independance because they were afraid he would slip a joke into it.

Belarus WWII: a high ranking Nazi officer had a brothel/concubine set up. Obviously, not consensual. Well some of the ladies didnt like the situation, and didn't like Nazis. So they put a landmine under his mattress.

William Walker, a short introverted ginger from Tennessee, armed with law and medical degrees, writes for papers. His quest starts with Mexico, then Nicaragua, seizing control with 54 drunkards from New Orleans.

During WWII, over 750,000 British animals were euthanised fearing scarce rations and stray pet problems. NARPAC advised sending pets to the countryside or 'kindly' euthanising them. The tragic event is remembered as British pet massacre:

Julius Wagner-Jauregg won the 1927 Nobel prize for medicine - by giving people malaria

The fever from the malaria would go so high that it could kill off an otherwise untreatable syphilis infection.

Eben Byers - a golf pro and socialite, rests in Pittsburgh's Allegheny National Cemetery. A victim of quack medicine, he consumed excessive 'Radithor' (Radium in water). His jaw eroded off before his death. His lead coffin in the mausoleum reflects his lasting radioactivity.