I did know that! They also use cow urine in India for a ton of things, including drinking, shampoo, and natural healing.
Also what is known as "the plague" had three variations; the most commonly well known one is of course the bubonic, but there was also the pneumonic and the septicemic plagues, all cause by yersinia pestis; the bacteria responsible for the plague, which in theory was brought over on Asian merchant ships by the rats that were on board. :> Was my favorite disease in 8th grade!