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By Nitasha Tiku 8/15/12 4:10pm

Bill Gates Has His Shit Together

Yesterday, Bill Gates announced $3.4 million in new funding to innovate on a technology that hasn’t been updated since 1775: the flush toilet. In the developing world, 1.5 million children under the age of five die each year from sanitation problems caused by defecating in the open, says Reuters. Western-style toilets, however, require complicated sewer Read More

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Bill Gates Has His Shit Together

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