What Are the Most Disgusting Jobs in the History of the World?

Fuller

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A fuller is responsible for cleaning wool to make it thick. During the Roman Empire, slaves were in charge of cleaning the wool using urine because it contained ammonia. They had to paddle through a pool of urine to clean it. Thankfully, a fuller’s job wasn’t as nasty by the Middle Ages, after a cleaning mixture known as “Fuller’s Earth” was created, which didn’t require urine.

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