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1. We eat 7 per cent of all salt production. The other 93 per cent is used by the chemical industry.
2. The first great Roman road was the Via Salaria (salt road), leading from Rome to the Adriatic Sea, where salt was gathered.
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3. The word ‘salary’ comes from the Latin for ‘salt’ not, as has often been claimed, because Roman soldiers were paid in salt, but because they used to buy salt with the money they were paid.
4. In the 18th and 19th century, blocks of salt were used as currency in Abyssinia (now Ethiopia).
5. Coincidentally, a man named Henry Salt wrote a book called ‘A Voyage to Abyssinia’ in 1814.
6. The Palacio de Sal Hotel and Spa in Bolivia is completely made out of salt.
7. Eating too much salt can kill you. In fact, salt-eating was a method of suicide in ancient China.
8. In Leonardo da Vinci’s painting of The Last Supper, Judas Iscariot is seen behind a spilt salt cellar. Hence the belief that spilt salt is unlucky.
9. “With all thine offerings thou shalt offer salt” (Leviticus 2:13).
10. “Let there be work, bread. water and salt for all,” (Nelson Mandela)
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2. The first great Roman road was the Via Salaria (salt road), leading from Rome to the Adriatic Sea, where salt was gathered.
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3. The word ‘salary’ comes from the Latin for ‘salt’ not, as has often been claimed, because Roman soldiers were paid in salt, but because they used to buy salt with the money they were paid.
4. In the 18th and 19th century, blocks of salt were used as currency in Abyssinia (now Ethiopia).
5. Coincidentally, a man named Henry Salt wrote a book called ‘A Voyage to Abyssinia’ in 1814.
6. The Palacio de Sal Hotel and Spa in Bolivia is completely made out of salt.
7. Eating too much salt can kill you. In fact, salt-eating was a method of suicide in ancient China.
8. In Leonardo da Vinci’s painting of The Last Supper, Judas Iscariot is seen behind a spilt salt cellar. Hence the belief that spilt salt is unlucky.
9. “With all thine offerings thou shalt offer salt” (Leviticus 2:13).
10. “Let there be work, bread. water and salt for all,” (Nelson Mandela)
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