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"Now, ancient people found their clothes got cleaner if they washed them at a certain spot in the river. You know why?"

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"Human sacrifices were once made on the hills above this river. Bodies burnt, water speeded through the wood ashes to create lye.

This is lye - the crucial ingredient. The lye combined with the melted fat of the bodies, till a thick white soapy