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TIL that Aztecs took two showers a day and used flowers as soap and cleaned their mouth with them as well. The Spaniards at the time avoided water because it was thought water on your skin made you more susceptible to the plague and they used urine to clean their mouths and teeth.

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QNMnd TIL the Sargasso Sea, located entirely in the Atlantic Ocean, is the only sea without a land boundary on the planet.
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