TIL King Charles II Of England had a personal laboratory where he conducted alchemy experiments. One of his projects was "the king's drops", an elixir made of human remains, ideally people who had died a violent death, usually sourced from Ireland

TIL King Charles II Of England had a personal laboratory where he conducted alchemy experiments. One of his projects was "the king's drops", an elixir made of human remains, ideally people who had died a violent death, usually sourced from Ireland