Insane Vintage Health Tips That People Actually Practiced

Homemade Mouthwash

Ancient Greeks and Romans used to use urine as mouthwash because they believed it was good for the teeth and for preventing disease. Since urine contains ammonia, it’s not completely crazy. But I’m not about to volunteer to test that.

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The More You Know

  • There are around 60,000 miles of blood vessels in the human body. If you took them all out and laid them end to end, they’d stretch around the world more than twice.
  • The first pieces of gold at Fort Knox arrived by mail.
  • Dr. Seuss wrote "Green Eggs and Ham" on a bet.
  • Russia has a larger surface area than Pluto.
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