00:00Did you know that people once washed their clothes with urine?
00:03It sounds disgusting today, but for centuries,
00:06people actually collected human urine to do laundry.
00:09The reason?
00:09As urine sits, it turns into ammonia,
00:12a powerful natural cleaner that breaks down grease, sweat, and stubborn stains.
00:18In ancient Rome, professional laundries, called felonica,
00:22had workers stomp clothes in large tubs filled with water and aged urine to clean them.
00:27Believe it or not, urine became so valuable that the Roman government even taxed its collection.
00:33So, the next time you complain about laundry detergent,
00:36remember, people once paid taxes on pee just to keep their clothes clean.
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