2.  2500 BC- Harappa city dwellers built indoor toilets  Non-flushable toilets empty into a sewer system  1500 BC – The technology is lost during an invasion  Advances in toilets take place in Europe

3.  1500 BC- Plumbers of Crete installed a flushable toilet for the Queen  When flushed, the rainwater fills the bowl and the contents empty through clay pipes  1400 AC- Earthquake destroyed the palace Google images

4.  800 BC- Cloaca Maxima construction in Rome  Sewer System that carried waste to Tiber River  Toilets made above sewers  11,000 toilets lined in rectangular rooms– no privacy  To wipe they used ONE sponge at the end of a stick

5.  1300 AD- Europeans used outhouses and sheds with a seat built over a hole in the ground  While cleaning, Richard the Racer fell through the hole and drown Google images

6.  1500- Indoor toilets called chamber pots  When the bowl is full, the waste gets tossed out the window Google Images

7.  1857- New Yorker Joseph Gayetty introduced toilet paper  Each sheet had Gayetty’s signature  Before toilet paper, people used whatever they could find Google Images

8.  1672- Devoted but busy readers could buy chamber pots disguised as a stack of books

9.  1775- Alexander Cummings created S- traps- a modern flushable toilet  The S-trap allows waste to go down taking the smell with it Google Images

10.  1885- Thomas Twyford introduced Unitas- one piece ceramic toilets  Eliminates leaky joints which caused bad smells  Many ceramic toilets take on elaborate decorations Google images

11.  1999- The Matsushita Electronic Industrial Company of Japan look at toilets smarter than you  High tech bowl measures weight and body-fat content  Chemical sensors analyze information regarding health

12.  November 19 th - World Toilet Day  The average person spends 3 years of their life sitting on a toilet  There are 333 squares of toilet paper in each role  Fun Toilet Facts | It Thing! Fun Toilet Facts | It Thing!