An average person uses the toilet 2,500 times a year, or three years of their life.
The average toilet is flushed eight times a day.
World Toilet Day is on November 19 every year.
Toilets of some form probably appeared as early as 2500 BC.
It is believed that toilet paper was first invented in China in AD 1391 for use by its rulers.
Thomas Crapper did not invent the flushing toilet, but did hold nine patents for plumbing products in England from the mid-1800s to early 1900s.
There is a halloween costume available for purchase called “toilet child.” The child wears a polyester 3-D toilet protruding from his or her chest.
The Ancient Egyptians called the toilet/outhouse the ‘House of the Morning.”
The first toilet seen on TV was on Leave it to Beaver.
Toilet derives from the French word toilette, which means the act of washing and dressing oneself.
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It is generally acceptable to use a bidet to wash your feet.
For those who have never seen a bidet before, particularly Americans, bidets have been
confused as toilets, urinals, drinking fountains, and even as baby baths. The Daily Show
recently showed a correspondent confusing one as a drinking fountain.
Bidets are common in East Asia, Europe, Latin America, and the Middle East.
In some countries, using dry toilet paper instead of a bidet is considered dirty.
The word “bidet” originally was used by French royalty to refer to their pet ponies. The connection
to the word’s modern use is that users straddled their bidets, like riding a pony.
The earliest written reference to the bidet was in 1710. It is thought to have been invented by
French furniture makers in the late 17th century.
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