I've retired from writing those kinds of articles, but I do have a killer presentation on the Cleveland Torso Killer.

Usually it's dead silence. The weeping comes on approximately 3/15-4/15, as everyone sees their money sucked into the black hole of DC.

On a related note, here is a Special Delivery from Miss C.: https://theconversation.com/filthy-habits-medieval-monks-were-more-likely-to-have-worms-than-ordinary-people-188946

His summary on Findagrave makes no mention of his 'Ajax'.
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/151315328/john-harington
But he came to a bad end. No good deed goes unpunished.

The mechanical flush toilet was first invented circa 2000 BC. The ground floor of the Palace of Knossos in Crete had a latrine with a wooden seat, an earthenware pan, and a reservoir for flushing water. The flush toilet was not reinvented until Sir John Harington (sometimes erroneously spelled ‘Harrington’) developed a flushing toilet, the ‘Ajax’, in 1596, one of which was installed in the Richmond palace of his godmother, Queen Elizabeth I, thus setting the vogue among the nobility. (The name ‘Ajax’ itself was a pun; "jakes", pronounced ‘jacks’, was then the common term for a privy.) Harington’s invention was the first flushing toilet that used moving parts to remove the contents and refill the water tank. Unfortunately, this device was demolished after John Harington died and it was almost 200 years until the flush toilet was re-invented again.
Harington’s flushing toilet incorporated both a valve at the bottom of the water tank and a wash-down system. It had a cistern containing water, a seat, and a bowl to receive the user’s deposit. With the cistern, it had a means of flushing away that deposit using a sudden rush of water from the cistern. However his design was not widely adopted because there was no public supply of running water with which to flush it. His was a crude contraption that inspired the first toilet jokes and which the Queen reportedly declined to use. He never made another one. Improvements were made on these devices over the years, but for the next century they remained Rube Goldberg contraptions that didn't work very well and tended to reek from all the waste matter collected in their ill-fitting joints and from the sewer gases backing up the trapless effluent lines.
In referring to both the sanitation practices of the time and his new invention, Sir Harington said of the Ajax: “This devise of mine requires not a sea full of water, but a cistern, not a whole Thames full, but a halfe a ton full, to keep all sweet and savourie.” Unfortunately, Harington made the mistake of writing a book about his invention, and people were disgusted by it. Harington’s ‘Ajax’ was mocked and the public ignored his toilet, preferring to stick with the close-stool and chamber pots. None other than nobility could have afforded it, anyway.
The earliest patent for a flush toilet belonged to another Englishman, Alexander Cummings (sometimes erroneously spelled ‘Cumming’), in 1775. Nearly 200 years after Harington and his Ajax, Alexander Cummings invented the first modern flush toilet. Cummings, a watchmaker, recognized the economic potential for a functional flush toilet and drastically simplified Harington’s original design with a single sliding valve that emptied the bowl, released water from a cistern to clean it, and then refilled the cistern.