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In Terry Jones' "Medieval Lives - The Peasant," He Makes the Claim That Everything, Even Lettuce, Was Boiled In the Middle Ages Due to the Use of Human Excrement as Fertilizer. Is There Any Truth to This?

by /u/Manyrandomtacos in /r/AskHistorians

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