Mar 18
Here's your mildly interesting history fact of the day!!!
i DO fact check all of this as im typing it!
Aristocratic (very wealthy) Women during the 1700s and 1800s would wear these big elaborate white wigs. But we knew that, didn't we?
They would use a Animal fat mixture to hold the wigs down on their heads. The problem with that was that they literally never washed (like once a month) so the fat would cause them rashes and such.
But you know what else it attracted?!?!? MICE!!!
yeah, so, when these women would sleep, Mice would come and nibble on their hair. The women would literally rather sleep with cages on their head then wash.
Anyways here's Marie Antoinette with her hair as a boat
