10 Bizarre Historical Hygiene Practices
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- Опубліковано 15 жов 2024
- American colonists used to wipe their bottoms with WHAT?
From terrifying early toothpaste recipes to questionable deodorant, hygiene hasn't always been so squeaky clean. Today we're covering strange and often gross hygiene practices from history.
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I used a lot of corn cobs in my younger days. It was hard to keep TP dry in the outhouse and catalog pages are really too slick to be effective.
Believe it or not, I'd heard that. Kleenex had the same problem as catalogs. Too slick to be effective.
As a person who grew up in rural Vermont. I was a bit surprised to find out when I went to school at the ripe young age of 5. That not only were there toilets inside the buildings there was paper next to it. I thought it was for coloring. Got nice long talking to from my dad the next week explaining that yes there are toilets inside, but the paper was for my butt and I definitely HAD to "flush" it after wards. That took me another mo the or so to figure out cause I was too busy trying to figure out why my dad wanted me to play poker with toilets.
Just anyone that's curious I turned out alright went to a good college and have a decently high IQ.
Just was ignorant of many modern luxuries until I got to school.
The collection of urine is where we get the phrase "So poor he dosen't have a pot to piss in." Meaning a person so poor, they can't even collect their urine to sell it.
My wife's grandfather was a minister
My father in law told me about a time that Rev Peplimg was looking at a church that he may take on
He checked the outhouse corncobs to get an accurate estimate of the congregation soze
If every day started with a video like this, I would always walk around with a smile to my ears💚
Bots don't smile.
Or have ears.