Thanks to Hollywood, we tend to romanticise history. It all seems like a time full of glamour, poetry and easy perfection but in fact, a simple google search will reveal that the truth is far from that.
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Of course, it is no shock to know that hygiene and other basic 21st century luxuries weren’t present or even invented then but you won’t believe just how bad it was. Hint: They once used urine to wash clothes!