The Woman Who Poisoned 600 Men with Her Makeup

The way this video begins will make you think it's about Lucretia Borgia, but that's just setting the scene. Even if Borgia were guilty of all the crimes she's been accused of, she still wouldn't hold a candle to Giulia Tofana. Tofana make a good living manufacturing cosmetics, but her real talent went into her signature product, Aqua Tofana. While the concoction was officially a cosmetic, those in the know could use it to obtain an old-fashioned divorce... if you know what I mean. And if you don't, you should read the many posts I've written about arsenic. In other words, Giulia Tofana was a 17th-century professional poisoner, and a prolific one, too. Weird History tells her story with a bit of snark, since that's the only way to make it palatable.