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The Roman’s Toothpaste

Did you know that the Romans didn’t have toothpaste? So what did they use I hear you ask, well it was urine!

It was used so much within the Roman Empire that Emperor Vespasian actually imposed a urine tax on the people called ‘vectigal urinae’.

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