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Originally posted by watso: ↑

not to forget that the fair damsels during the american civil war, were requested to save their pee, so that their fighting men could have a bit of gunpowder ..

https://xue-lin.com/gunpowder-was-made-from-womens-urine-pee-during-the-civil-war-saltpeter-or-potassium-nitrate

Gunpowder was made from Women’s Urine (Pee) during the Civil War – Saltpeter or Potassium Nitrate.

One dedicated Southerner collected wagons full of women’s pee to make gunpowder for the Civil War. On October 1, 1863, the women of Selma, Alabama, opened the newspaper. There in black and white was a young man asking for their pee.

..... It was the tail end of the Civil War, and the South was desperate for ammo. “Nitre,” also known as saltpeter, was a main ingredient in the manufacture of gunpowder, you see. And to make saltpeter, you needed nitrogen, and urine had plenty of that.

the men were away fighting - which meant that it was only the fair damsels who could supply the required product..
mmmm imagine how much gunpowder could be made from 7 million tons of pee

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