
Ep 4 The Poop Show
This Podcast Will Kill You
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The Cholera Epidemic in London
Jon Snow was an English physician living in London in 1854 when a cholera epidemic broke out. "The vast majority of people were just tossing out their poop, their food scraps, and their dead pets or other animals into open cesspools that led to the sewer," he says. The population of London today is 8.7 million.
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