Today I Found Out
The Great Stink of 1858 (2017x98)
Air date: Apr 22, 2017
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→How "Di’’s less okay though is when there’s nowhere for that poop to go- something people in Victorian era London found out first hand when all of the sewage they’d pumped into the Thames dried up and caused a stench that spurred London’s City Press to note- “Gentility of speech is at an end—it stinks, and whoso once inhales the stink can never forget it and can count himself lucky if he lives to remember it.”
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http://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/parliamentary-archives/archives-highlights/archives-parliament-and-the-thames/
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Stink
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Snow_%28physician%29
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https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:London_Thames_copper_engraving_19th_century.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dirty_father_Thames.jpg
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https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Punch-A_Court_for_King_Cholera.png
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Whitehead_(priest)#/media/File:Whitehead_henry1884.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Father_Thames_introduci
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