Did you know that the Romans scraped their skin to clean it? Did you know that during the Renaissance, kings and queens rarely bathed? Did you know most people didn't use soap until the late 19th century? Larry talks about these dirty facts and more with Katherine Ashenburg, author of The Dirt on Clean: An Unsanitized History (North Point Press).
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