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I'm torn between wanting more information, and preferring to live in blissful ignorance.

• gambiting 4y ago
  In old houses if you had a hot water storage tank in the attic it was usually just covered with styrofoam or a metal or wooden slab, it wasn't uncommon for an occasional insect or yes, a small rodent to fall in and die in there. It's one of the reasons why most houses in the UK had separate cold and hot water taps - cold water was considered safe to drink, hot not so much. Nowadays if you have a hot water cylinder it's impossible for anything to get in there(although there is still a chance of bacteria growing inside the tank, but any modern cylinder will periodically heat itself to very high temperature to kill any pathogens)
  • dehrmann 4y ago
    Aren't there occasionally dead animals in NYC rooftop water towers, too? And that's cold water.
• anikom15 4y ago
  It could be a bird, a bat, or a victim of bipolar disorder. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Elisa_Lam https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Elisa_Lam