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But Victorian London's toilet horrors did not end there… Because beneath many homes lay something even worse than chamber pots— Cesspits. Large underground pits dug beneath houses… Designed to collect human waste. At first, this may sound practical. Until you realize what happened when they filled up. And they always filled up. When that happened… Workers known as “night soil men” were hired to empty them. They worked after dark… Because their job was considered too disgusting for day