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Bizarre Toilet Facts

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.