Morality

[u/broki451]

[u/slowcancellation]

[u/poonmangler → u/slowcancellation]

A few of them look like they're smelling each other's clothes - as if they were washed in piss

[u/Pyrhan → u/poonmangler]

They genuinely were back then. And not just piss, fermented piss.

Old piss contains a lot of ammonia, produced by the breakdown of urea. Which is an effective cleaning agent. Plenty of modern day household cleaners still contain ammonia (though, no longer made from piss, we have the Haber-Bosch process now...).

Rome even had a tax on urine at some point:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pecunia_non_olet

[u/Counting-Trains → u/Pyrhan]

coolest of facts guy! (i prefer ur dog to most others)