stackyFACTSDying of organ failure just to look like a chronically anemic ghost. Renaissance women actively chewed on wafers infused with arsenic to achieve a deathly pale, flawless complexion. They poisoned their own bloodstreams simply because looking like a tuberculosis patient was peak societal fashion.
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