Uploaded April 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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The world was a grim place before the advent of the flush toilet.


"On 26 July 1184, in the German city of Erfurt, approximately sixty local nobles died when the floor of a building collapsed through the ground floor and into the latrine cesspit below. They were attending a Hoftag ("court day") conducted by King Henry VI when their combined weight caused the floor of the building to collapse. Some of the attendees drowned in human waste after falling into the cesspit."

More on Wikipedia:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erfurt_latrine_disaster

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