- Chinese were the first to mine salt
- Gunpowder is made from salt
- Egyptian tombs have two parts, the below ground burial and an above ground offering
- Proteins unravel in the presence of heat, salt
- Salt mines shift under their weight and close their own cracks as brine fills and dries
- The Celtic economy was based on salt
- “Common salts” is a Roman idiom
- Curing fish enabled mass distribution of fish and people who could eat fish rations
- Milk curdles under contact with animal skin, especially the stomach
- Fat resists salt which is why oily fish need to be salted more and pressed
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