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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Shangas, post: 195844, member: 360&quot;]I&#039;ve seen this one circulate Facebook, and as a SERIOUSLY HARDCORE history-nut, I can tell you that not all of these are true.</p><p><br /></p><p>For one thing, eating pork (or bacon, ham whatever) was more common than most people think. You couldn&#039;t keep pigs over winter (at least, not profitably) so it was common to butcher them in the colder months.</p><p><br /></p><p>The REAL luxury meats were beef, lamb, chicken and venison. The first three because cows, sheep and chickens were more valuable alive than dead, and the last because you needed the hunting-rights to get it.</p><p><br /></p><p>While it is true that piss was collected on a pretty epic scale back in the old days, it wasn&#039;t necessarily because of leather. Piss was used as laundry-soap, metal-polish, mouthwash and even in the manufacture of gunpowder.</p><p><br /></p><p>That said - if you didn&#039;t own your own pisspot - you could use a public one. They did exist. They used to sit them outside pubs and taverns for the penile-gifted of a given community to make regular donations to.</p><p><br /></p><p>Thatch rooves are more leakproof than you might think. There&#039;s a reason why people have used them for centuries.</p><p><br /></p><p>People washed a lot more regularly than we generally give them credit for. In Roman and even Medieval times, it was common to frequent bathhouses.</p><p><br /></p><p>Washing started dying out not because it was hard to get, or even heat the water, it died out because soap was taxed to the bloody hilt. It was so expensive to get that most people would try and make a single block last for weeks, and hence bathed only when absolutely necessary - and in the most efficient ways possible. It was only after the soap-tax was lifted in the 1800s that bathing became a daily thing.</p><p><br /></p><p>Before that, soap was taxed in England from 1712-1853. Other interesting things that were taxed were candles, and male servants.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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