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No Such Thing As An Eton Oyster
There's a bit of the Chicago River which was called Bubbly Creek. Dead carcasses give off methane, they give off gas. 100 years ago, it was really foul.
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The Chicago River is a friend of the podcast. In 2004, the Dave Matthews Band drove over it in their bus and dumped an estimated £800 of human feces onto a passenger sightseeing boat.
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The Chicago River was known as the Stinking River. That's what locals called it all the way through the 20th century.
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Who is basically slightly sent to Coventry in Cambridge because he's become a Buddhist and become very spiritual. He's the most wonderful person. I think in the University of Cambridge, they don't say sent to Coventry.…
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Physicists at the University of Hawaii have recently solved the secret of how washing machines get clothes clean. It's never been known until now.
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