It is commonly believed that Thomas Crapper invented the flushing toilet but this is not true - the first one came along nearly 100 years earlier. 2.

So, who really invented the toilet? The earliest known toilets date back about 5,000 years to ancient Mesopotamia. These simple, pit-style potties were lined with a series of long, ...

Modern toilet paper was invented in 1857, when Joseph Gayetty sold medicated paper in packages of flat sheets. Still, most people saw no reason to buy the product when they had free alternatives ...

Today, the toilet paper industry is worth $3.5 billion annually in the US alone, with the average individual working their way through more than 20,000 sheets a year.

Waxing pubic hair has become increasingly common, but how did the trend for the "Brazilian" wax begin? In an office toilet in London, young women discuss their grooming regimes. Jennifer, 19 ...

The debate whether toilet paper should go “under or over” has been going on for decades. But it seems, the solution lies in ...

Archaeologists excavating the ruins of Donggung Palace near Gyeongju, South Korea, recently came across a unique flushing toilet that was likely used by a crown prince of the Silla Dynasty some ...

While in the west, toilet paper was invented in the mid-1800s, around three hundred years after the mass production of paper for other purposes. Around the 1870s Thomas Gayetty, ...

It is commonly believed that Thomas Crapper invented the flushing toilet but this is not true - the first one came along nearly 100 years earlier. 2.

While in the west, toilet paper was invented in the mid-1800s, around three hundred years after the mass production of paper for other purposes. Around the 1870s Thomas Gayetty, ...