samurai

Makeup made their children stupid

Did heavy makeup bring down the shogunate? It’s possible. Remains of children of samurai show sky-high levels of lead in their bones, most likely from their mothers, who adorned their faces with white, lead-based powder. Idiocy…

By Tricycle

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