Some interesting facts about a subject that few like to discuss, but EVERYONE uses.
Toilet water is 33% of the wastewater stream.

TOILET FACTS

• An average person visits the toilet 2500 times a year- that’s about 6 to 8 times per day which translates into 3 years of your life!
• A family of 4 flushes the toilet on average 7,592 times a year
• 5 BILLION gallons of water get flushed DAILY in the U.S.
• 22,500 square miles of toilet paper gets used every year
• $10,000,000.00 gets spent on chemicals each year in the U.S. to make toilets smell better
• More than half the world population has no proper sanitation- only 7% of homes in Afghanistan, for instance, have a flush toilet although 19% have a television!
• Females take 3 times longer than males
• A rat can tread water for up to 3 days and can survive being flushed down the toilet, returning to the building via the same route
• 1 out of every 10,000 people get injured by a toilet every year
• Chinese emperors ordered the first ever toilet paper in AD 1391. Each sheet of paper was 2 feet X 3 feet
• The first toilet paper in England came in 1880 and consisted of individual sheets in a box.
• In 1890, the Scott Paper Company manufactured toilet paper on a roll much as we know it today
• The first toilet cubicle in a public washroom is the least likely to be used: it is also the cleanest
• Most toilets flush in the key of E flat
• November 19 is World Toilet Day

Albert Giblin holds the 1819 British patent for the “Silent Valueless Water Waste Preventer”, a system that allowed a toilet to flush effectively. From 1861 to 1904, Thomas Crapper held 9 patents for plumbing related products in England but he did not invent the toilet. Giblin worked for Crapper as an employee and the most likely scenario is that Crapper bought the patent rights from Giblin and marketed the device himself.

BEFORE toilet paper was invented, what was used???