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Strange Tales: Gunpowder and ‘the urine of a wine drinking man’

Gunpowder radically changed the medieval world, battering down castle walls, ushering in the age of the gun and eventually the end of knights. But to make gunpowder's crucial ingredient, saltpetre, there was a component that only wine drinkers could provide....

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