History Facts Teachers Rarely Mention

History Facts Teachers Rarely Mention Caligula was notorious for his excesses. Ancient sources

claim he hosted dinner parties where he would take a guest’s wife away for a sexual encounter,

then return to publicly rate her performance and mock her husband’s shortcomings. While some accounts

may be exaggerated, even Roman historians described his behavior as deliberately humiliating.

Ancient Romans sometimes dropped a piece of toasted bread into their wine, believing it improved

flavor and promoted good health—an early form of what we might call a health hack.

Julius Caesar was rumored to have had relationships with both women and men.

His political enemies mocked him relentlessly, calling him “every woman’s man and every man’s woman,”