Why medieval homes were filled with smoke
Without any proper ventilation, just cooking a basic dinner guaranteed you would be weeping profusely and coughing up black soot all night long.

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History →Without any proper ventilation, just cooking a basic dinner guaranteed you would be weeping profusely and coughing up black soot all night long.

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Houses just featured a gaping hole in the roof, meaning absolutely everyone constantly smelled like they spent the weekend at a miserable bonfire.
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Without an electric kettle, just making a cup of hot water required building a fire from scratch, hauling heavy iron, and waiting half the morning.
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Long before Tide Pods existed, the raw ammonia in week-old collected pee was considered the absolute best chemical for stripping heavy stains from fabric.
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Even while fighting off screaming Picts at the miserable, freezing edge of the known world, Roman legionaries absolutely refused to skip spa day. At the…
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Reigniting a hearth without matches was such a tedious, miserable nightmare that peasants just let logs dangerously smolder 24/7 inside their homes.
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Just to remind everyone of their unlimited budget, the Burj Al Arab casually converted its dizzyingly high helipad into a temporary tennis court. Athletes…
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