r/todayilearned • u/Ainsley-Sorsby • 3d ago

TIL Part of N.Machiavelli's diplomatic mission to Cesare Borgia included sending intel back to his government, even down to Borgia's personal habits. He noticed that he had inhuman energy and could go several nights working sleepless but occasionaly would "fall to his bed" and refuse to see anyone

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cesare_Borgia#Personal_life
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u/Squiddlywinks 2d ago

About 300 years too early for that.

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u/Physical_Ad4617 2d ago

Egyptian Mummies had more than trace amounts of cocaine, there is a lot of shit about cocaine use we don't know.

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u/Squiddlywinks 2d ago

Even if we agree that more than trace amounts of cocaine were found on mummies, that's off by 2500 years in the other direction. If there was cocaine available in Machiavelli's time, it would have been a traded commodity and we would have records of it.

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u/mkti23 2d ago

Is ancient Egyptian cocaine the new Roman concrete?