stackyFACTSThe most aggressively toxic relationship counseling tactic ever conceived. When Peter the Great discovered his wife Catherine was having an affair with William Mons, he had the guy beheaded. To ensure she never forgot her mistake, he put the severed head in a jar of alcohol on her nightstand.
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Not content with simply ordering deaths from the comfort of his throne room, Peter the Great occasionally stepped in to swing the axe himself. He viewed it as…
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Peter the Great formed the "All-Joking, All-Drunken Synod of Fools and Jesters," a mandatory club for his elite. Attendance was compulsory, sobriety was…
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Russian Empress Elisabeth was notoriously paranoid and utterly terrified of sleeping alone. Her bizarre coping mechanism was to hire a rotating shift of…
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The woman whose name is synonymous with extreme prudishness and corseted elegance spent her twilight years rocking a thoroughly modern, body-positive…
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While other leaders focused on administration, Henry was aggressively collecting supposed holy artifacts like an eccentric museum curator. His obsession…
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When your dad is forced into the head-chopping business, you log your decapitations like a deranged corporate accountant. In the 16th century, executioner…
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