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How Men And Women Of The Past Used To Entertain Themselves
#2: They threw mummy parties
You are in the 19th century, and what do you do when bored?
The radio wasn’t an in-house thing yet. There are no theme parks. And you can’t scroll through a thousand YouTube shorts in one sitting.
Besides, productivity and hustle culture wasn’t invented yet. So what did they do after their day's work to entertain themselves?
Corpse Watching In France
Who would’ve thought the main attraction in France back in the 1890s wasn’t art or museums but corpses?
The French press released a story of a young girl who died from a bruise on her finger. And the story went viral.
People would leave their homes to gaze at her corpse through the clear windows at the morgue where she laid. And, with people lining up to see her, many spotted a booming business trend.
Morgue owners would display newly dead corpses like window displays. And the French and British tourists would pay to gaze at dead bodies.
