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Things I have googled in the last 24 hours:

"the history of the logistics of waste management"
"why did theater die off in Europe after antiquity"
"Shakespeare's works as mass entertainment of the day"
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ADHD brain. Anyway, in case any of these weird and incredibly niche topics get their hooks into you like they did into me, here's what I found:
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Picking Up: On the Streets and Behind the Trucks with the Sanitation Workers of New York City is ... NOT a history of the logistics of waste management, but it's kind of a capsule investigation of sanitation management in NYC for the last 400 years!
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It's quite interesting, I've got it on my kindle now.
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Aaaand two AskHistorians answers on Reddit, which, yes, I DO consider definitive sources, thank you:
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"Were Shakespeare's works recognized for their immense literary merit in his time, or were they merely enjoyed as wildly popular mass entertainment? If the latter, how long did it take for his works to be recognized as masterpieces of English literature?"
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"What happened with theatre in the Middle Ages? Most overviews of theatre always mention Greek and Roman plays but then jump on to plays from Shakespeare or the Spanish Tragedy. Was it discontinued as a practice, do we have no records?"
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Nerd alert
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