Well, there isn’t a whole lot to say here in our introduction, folks. To know them is to love and appreciate them, and we are in fact talking about the toilet. So without further ado, here are some fun toilet facts!
The first modern flushable toilet was described way back in 1596 by Sir John Harington, the godson of Queen Elizabeth I; however, the man behind manufacturing one of the first widely successful lines of flushing toilets was Mr. Thomas Crapper. That’s right, Crapper. We guess it practically named itself?
The year was 1850, the town was Crystal Palace, London, and the price for using a public toilet at the time? Exactly one penny. We can’t imagine a world where we would have to pay to use a public bathroom, but we would all be lying if we couldn’t think of a time when we would have shelled over whatever the asking price was.
The next time you venture to a public restroom, go for the first stall. It’s the stall that, statistically speaking, is chosen the least so it’s typically the cleanest.
People have died in a lot of interesting ways and one of those people and one of those interesting ways was King George II, who met his demise when he fell off the toilet on October 25, 1760.
Toilet paper didn’t really come to be until 1857 and if you too are wondering just what people used before then, the answer is: whatever they could. We know that plumbing was pretty iffy for a lot of years, but there’s no way “whatever is at your disposal” was good for whatever type of pipe system there was.
Collectively we spend about three years on the toilet. And with the invention of TikTok alone, that number is probably significantly higher. And we wish we were joking, but studies have found that the amount of time a person spends on the toilet is directly proportional to how many time suckers (apps, games, social media) happen to be on a person’s phone.
We don’t know how everyone else grew up, but for a good portion of our lives, we’ve had to share a bathroom. If you love the idea of not having to share a bathroom, then perhaps a move to the White House is in the cards for you. Why? Because the White House has exactly 35 bathrooms in it.
We always appreciate a bathroom that smells nice, and this has apparently been on the forefront of people’s minds for years because early toilet fresheners were made out of pomegranates adorned with cloves.
