One of the worst human jobs was that of the Saltpeter Man. This involved a man going around the city collecting the public's urine for use in making petards (old time grenades).
This was actually a job? Oh my God, that is so disgusting! I wonder how many times it got spilled on his hands? Knowing that they weren't as clean back then, thats an especially foul job to have.
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