The ancient Romans used a natural contraceptive called Silphium. It was so valuable that its image was printed on coins!

Some of the gunpowder used in the American Revolutionary War was made, in part, from pee. The old-timey recipe for gunpowder - which was in short supply during the war - includes nitre, which could be made from soaking soil in human or animal urine and letting it dry.

William of Orange's uncle, King Charles II, watched him consummate his marriage. While shouting encouraging phrases from the sidelines.

Gandhi used to do "chastity experiments," having young people of both sexes bathe and sleep together. However, sexual talk or activity was punished.

The first person to be sentenced to death in the colonies of North America was a guy arrested for "buggery." Thomas Granger was sentenced on September 7, 1642, for having sex with a mare, a cow, two goats, "divers sheepe," two calves, and a turkey.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau was obsessed with being spanked. The philosopher and writer would actually chase women around with his pants pulled down in an effort to get spanked.

Catherine the Great had a secret sex salon with salacious furniture. The extremely "adult" chairs, couches, and tables were decorated with naked people doing sexy things.

Empress Wu Zetian, ruled China on her own, the first woman to do so in 3000 years, so she showed her authority over men who came to her audience by making them orally pleasure her.

Alexander the Great had 361 concubines.

The Battle of Agincourt may have been fought by pantsless soldiers. Because of pooping. The battle was waged by guys with their pants pulled down to allow for speedy pooping.

Anne Frank's diary had a lot of talk about masturbation and menstruation in it, but much of it was edited out.

Mozart once wrote a song called "Lick Me in the Ass." The composer was a big fan of scatological and dirty humor, and wrote a song for six voices called "Leck Mich im Arsch."

President Warren G. Harding wrote highly graphic erotic letters to his mistress, Carrie Phillips.

President Lyndon B. Johnson once pulled out his penis during an interview. The reporter kept asking him about why American troops were in Vietnam, and Johnson brandished his, er, johnson and said "THIS IS WHY!"

During WWII, Norway was occupied by the Nazis. Resistance fighters gave the Nazis diarrhea via sardine cans. The resistance fighters snuck into sardine-canning plants and instead of just sardines, filled the cans with croton oil - which happens to be a powerful laxative.

It was popular in France for royal women to give birth in front of a crowd.

Confessional booths were built to prevent priests from having sex with parishioners. The screen between the priest and the person confessing was put in place to make sure the priests - who were supposedly celibate - didn't sleep with the young women who came to confess their sins.

During the Iron Age (1200-550 BCE), the new High King of the Celts was inaugurated by having sex with a white mare. The white mare was then eaten.

When Wales joined the United Kingdom, they found a loophole in the laws regarding sheep - if you were caught stealing a sheep, your hand was cut off. If you were caught having sex with a sheep, just your finger was. So lots of sheep thieves just *said* they were sheep-lovers to avoid the harsher punishment.

Vlad the Impaler, upon whom Dracula was loosely based, didn't stake people through the heart - he impaled them through the butt. A large log would be sharpened, and a person being punished would be placed on top, naked. They would then slide down the log over a series of days.

In the 19th and early 20th centuries, the treatment for "hysteria" (which was basically just any time a woman was acting "crazy") was for the (male) doctor to essentially give her a handjob...so vibrators were invented to reduce doctors' hands cramping.

Edward II, of England, was (supposedly) killed when a red hot poker was put up his butt.