Myth vs Fact

"Tin foil hat" should have changed to aluminum foil quite awhile back. Been quite awhile since tin was a common item. Tin cans.

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We know the Trojan Horse is a myth (think about hiding a squad of armed soldiers for hours inside it, each man so perfectly quiet no Trojan ever thinks to look inside).

I fear the Greeks bearing gifts. Also another phrase that has survived, but I am not quite so certain that the Trojan Horse did not actually exist.

A siege was often broken by a false retreat followed by a careless sorty by the now over confident besieged. Getting someone inside to over power the guards at the gate was commonly attempted.

Of course it would have been a very large ornate horse and some well concealed compartment, but if the Trojan soldiers were all drunkenly celebrating their victory, a small quiet force could work wonders.

One thing is surely certain... they didn't fight for ten years over some abducted broad.

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Urine was used as raw material for something, I forget what.

Same thing you clean with today

To this day, a female's urine contains an antidepressant and is routinely offered to male visitors in the Innuit settlements.
Also there are certain fish stings that male urine will be an antidote for in the tropics.
And I've written here before about sleep apnea, it is really a disease of the kidneys which extract urea from the blood.