→Subscribe for new videos every day! https://www.youtube.com/user/TodayIFoundOut?sub_confirmation=1 →How "Dick" came to be short for 'Richard': https://youtu.be/BH1NAwwKtcg?list=PLR0XuDegDqP2Acy6g9Ta7hzC0Rr3RDS6q Never run out of things to say at the water cooler with TodayIFoundOut! Brand new videos 7 days a week! More from TodayIFoundOut That Time Johnny Carson Accidentally Caused a Near Month Long Toilet Paper Shortage in the US https://youtu.be/IqMleWYgo3s?list=PLR0XuDegDqP3XRa-w_G0dy_aMMXj0Uq-k The Tiny Nation of Sealand https://youtu.be/NhlCrm1pSWM?list=PLR0XuDegDqP3XRa-w_G0dy_aMMXj0Uq-k In this video: According to the only book I currently have on my desk, everyone poops and that’s okay. What’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.” Want the text version?: http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2015/07/great-stink-1858/ Sources: http://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/parliamentary-archives/archives-highlights/archives-parliament-and-the-thames/ http://www.choleraandthethames.co.uk/cholera-in-london/the-great-stink/ http://www.choleraandthethames.co.uk/cholera-in-london/the-big-thames-clean-up/ http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/trail/victorian_britain/social_conditions/victorian_urban_planning_03.shtml http://publichealth.artsci.wustl.edu/great_stink http://www.thameswater.co.uk/about-us/850_2611.htm http://www.victorianweb.org/science/health/thames1.html http://www.history.co.uk/study-topics/history-of-london/sir-joseph-bazalgette-and-londons-sewers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Stink https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Snow_%28physician%29 Image Credit: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_silent_highwayman.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/River_Thames#/media/File:FaradayFatherThames.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:London_Thames_copper_engraving_19th_century.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dirty_father_Thames.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hartmann_Maschinenhalle_1868_(01).jpg 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_introducing_his_offspring_to_the_fair_city_of_London.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Queen_Victoria_by_JJE_Mayall,_1860.png https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Charles_Dickens_1858.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Faraday-Millikan-Gale-1913.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:JosephBazalgettePortrait.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Joseph_bazalgette.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Snow#/media/File:John_Snow.jpg https://www.flickr.com/photos/derekskey/9091729041 https://www.bigstockphoto.com/ru/image-164808215/stock-photo-oxford-united-kingdom-august-21-all-souls-college-oxford-university-on-august-21-2016-in-oxford-united-kingdom-all-souls-college-is-a-constituent-college-of-the-university-of-oxford-in-england Music from Jukedeck - create your own at http://jukedeck.com.