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Thread #24089   Message #273247
Posted By: Sourdough
07-Aug-00 - 08:40 PM
Thread Name: Lyr ADD: Chamber Lye / John Harloson's Saltpeter
Subject: RE: A Curious Civil War Song
If you want to go looking for urea in daily life, try your toothpaste! I think the Mongols introduced urine as a teethcleaning material when they brushed their teeth in horses' urine. Now we use synthetic urea in our toothpaste so as not to upset the USDA and maybe us, too.

Sourdough