Morning Toilets!

No no no.

First of all, that’s a western toilet.

So for our non-western audience, here is your toilet:

Second, both of those are too modern for all intents and purposes here at Smart Nonsense.

The first toilet looked something more like this:

Haha yes…

A massive hole that drops straight down a shaft.

Aka the poop shoot

Now, this creates quite the problem when enemy knights would literally climb up the poop shoot:

Andddd sneak attack:

Oof.

Now, rich people had fancier “garderobes” - fancy rooms with a hole:

Where servants threw buckets down to flush it

But in 1596, this dude Sir John Harrington invents the FLUSHABLE toilet for Queen Elizabeth

We’re talking water tank, flush valve, the whole kit and caboodle.

Here it is in real life:

But..

There was no plumbing, so literally nobody could use this thing for the next 250 years.

We good now!

Stay Poopy,
Henry & Dylan 🌈

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