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Radioactive makeup was a thing for a while.

History is full of bizarre stories that we rarely learn in the classroom because, quite frankly, they're not that important.Still, the"unimportant" bits of history are often the most fun. Do yourself a favour and Google"Andrew Jackson's parrot."The OSS planned on giving this chemical to the French Resistance, so they could covertly spray German officers, humiliating them.

John Harvey Kellogg agreed with Graham's reasoning and concocted his famous cornflakes, in the hopes that people who consumed them wouldMarie Curie's breakthrough discovery was treated as a cure-all and quickly became a fad. Radium was added to nearly any product you can imagine . There was evencalled"Tho-Radia". It included lipstick, face powder, suppositories, and even condoms. Luckily, most radium products had fairly low levels of radiation.

Regardless, Lincoln decided to stop shaving and grew out his now-famous beard. After he won the election, Lincoln actually met Grace Bedell on his inaugural tour.Commando's job was to smuggle messages out of German-occupied France. His performance is even more impressive when you learn that war pigeons had a very high fatality rate. The BBC estimates that"fewer than one in eight of the birds sent on the missions returned home.

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