Plenty of Horsepower, Yet Not So Swift: When most of us think of maniac drivers, we tend to think of them in low-slung European sports sedans, or growling American muscle cars, teenagers on Japanese sport bikes or the occasional menace of a … Some of these things have been pretty strange: Roman women used a combination of crocodile dung and white lead to keep their skin looking pure. Ancient Egyptians used bat’s blood as a remedy for eye infections, and in Europe, … …

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The Week in Weird (Naked Pianist Edition)