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Victorian London's poop explosion: why even Queen Victoria couldn't escape the stench

The Thames once stank so badly in a heatwave that Parliament nearly fled the building. The fix became one of Victorian engineering's biggest flexes.

— via HistoryExtra (BBC), Jonny Wilkes

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