Bizarre toilet facts

[CDNRunaways Fan]

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Sir John Harington invented the toilet for Queen Elizabeth I
after she banned him from her court for circulating smutty
stories. So she allowed him to return.

The most impossible item to flush is a ping-pong ball.

The idea of separate cubicles for toilets is a relatively
modern invention; the Romans, for example, sat down together
in large groups.

In Victorian times, toilet seats were always made of wood:
the well-to-do sat on mahogany or walnut, while the poor put
up with untreated white pine.

"Psycho" was the first Hollywood film that showed a toilet
flushing - thereby generating many complaints.

The town council of Cheltenham Spa once voted to replace the
words Men and Women on their public toilets with Ladies and
Gentlemen in order to "attract a better class of person."

An American jeweler has built the world's most expensive
toilet, made of gold, diamonds, rubies and emeralds, with a
mink seat - it costs $175,000.

Before the invention of toilet paper, people used shells or
stones, bunches of herbs, or, at best, a bit of sponge
attached to a stick, which they rinsed with cold water.

[From "That Book of Perfectly Useless Information"]

[cherrysmum]

stones and seashells ouch...I just think I'll stick with owls LOL

<font color="#000000" size="1">[ September 09, 2005 04:13 PM: Message edited by: cherrysmum ]</font>

[Lefty]

Shells? Wow. I heard about people using their left hand, which also commands them to use their right for eating. I'm not making this up. Maybe it was in India or something.

And, ooooh, I'm gonna try that pingpong ball!