Monday, 2 March 2015

30-34 facts

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, women drank a potion with beaver testicles ground into it as a form of contraception.


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