penelope.uchicago.edu

jNWAR TIL Cato the Elder(a notoriously uptight grouch) expelled a man from the roman senate for embracing his wife in public and in front of their daughter. Cato went on to say that he never hugs his own wife, except during thunderstorms, and added that "thunderstorms make him a really happy man"
N7OdE TIL that in Ancient Rome, the high priest of Jupiter was not permitted to touch a horse, sleep three nights outside his own bed or one night outside Rome, or look upon an army.
6ElX8 TIL about Roman aristocrats drinking copious amounts of remarkably toxic lead wine lol