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=Modern toilet invented by watchmaker = It is often incorrectly quoted that the toilet was invented by a Mr Thomas Crapper in the 18th century. Actually, simple toilets have been used since Babylonian times. In 1596, John Harrington invented an indoor water closet for Queen Elizabeth I. But Harrington then published a book with tasteless puns about his own invention. The toilet then dropped into obscurity for nearly 200 years. In 1775, London watchmaker Alexander Cummings patented the forerunner of today's toilet. There was a Mr Crapper around at the time - he happened to be a successful plumber, appropriately. The British word for toilet, "loo", derives from the French "garde a l'eau!" In medieval Europe people had little conception of hygene and threw the contents of their chamber pots out the window into the street below. In France the practice was preceded by "garde a l'eau!" ("watch out for the water!"). In England, this phrase was Anglicised, first to "gardy-loo!", then just "loo", and eventually came to mean the toilet/lavatory itself. The American word for toilet, "john", is called after the John Harington mentioned above. In 1913, the Russian airline became the first to feature a toilet on board. The movie Psycho is said to be the first film to show a toilet being flushed. Toilet paper is thought to have been introduced in China at around 850, long before the advent of the toilet as we know it. http://www.didyouknow.org/toilets.htm

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 * The 16th century Escorial palace of King Phillip II of Spain had 1,200 doors.
 * The world's first travel agencies were Cox & Kings, founded in 1758, and Thomas Cook, founded in 1850.
 * A dog was the first in space and a sheep, a duck and a rooster the first to fly in a hot air balloon.
 * Music was sent down a telephone line for the first time in 1876, the year the phone was invented.
 * Beer was the first trademarked product - British beer Bass Pale Ale received its trademark in 1876.
 * Playing-cards were known in Persia and India as far back as the 12th century. A pack then consisted of 48 instead of 52 cards.
 * Excavations from Egyptian tombs dating to 5,000 BC show that the ancient Egyptian kids played with toy hedgehogs.
 * Accounts from Holland and Spain suggest that during the 1500s and 1600s urine was commonly used as a tooth-cleaning agent.
 * <span style="color: rgb(79,3,79); font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">Julius Caesar was the first to encode communications, using what has become known as the Caesar Cipher.
 * <span style="color: rgb(79,3,79); font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">The first mention of soap was on Sumerian clay tablets dating about 2,500 BC. The soap was made of water, alkali and cassia oil.
 * <span style="color: rgb(79,3,79); font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">The first animal in space was the female Samoyed husky named Laika, launched by the Soviets in 1957.
 * <span style="color: rgb(79,3,79); font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">In 1958 the US sent two mice called Laska and Benjy into space.
 * <span style="color: rgb(79,3,79); font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">In 1961 the US launched a male chimpanzee called Ham into space.
 * <span style="color: rgb(79,3,79); font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">In 1963 the French launched a cat called Feliette into space.
 * <span style="color: rgb(79,3,79); font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">Great Britain was the first county to issue postage stamps, on 1 May 1840. Hence, UK stamps are the only stamps in the world not to bear the name of the country of origin.
 * <span style="color: rgb(79,3,79); font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">Napoleon's christening name was Italian: Napoleone Buonaparte. He was born on the island of Corsica one year after it became French property. As a boy, Napoleon hated the French.
 * <span style="color: rgb(79,3,79); font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">John Rolfe married Pocahontas the Red Indian Princess in 1613.
 * <span style="color: rgb(79,3,79); font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">Only one of the Seven Wonders of the World still survives: the Great Pyramid of Giza.
 * <span style="color: rgb(79,3,79); font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">The first parachute jump from an airplane was made by Captain Berry at St. Louis, Missouri, in 1912.
 * <span style="color: rgb(79,3,79); font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">On 21 June 1913, over Los Angeles, Georgia Broadwick became the first women to parachute from an airplane.
 * <span style="color: rgb(79,3,79); font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">The first written account of the Loch Ness Monster, or Nessie, was made in 565AD.
 * <span style="color: rgb(79,3,79); font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">The world's first skyscraper was the 10-storey Home Insurance office, built in Chicago in 1885. (During Roman times buildings were up to 8 storeys high.)
 * <span style="color: rgb(79,3,79); font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">In ancient times, it was believed that certain colours could combat the evil spirits that lingered over nurseries. Because blue was associated with the heavenly spirits, boys were clothed in that colour, boys then being considered the most valuable resource to parents. Although baby girls did not have a colour associated with them, they were mostly clothed in black. It was only in the Middle Ages when pink became associated with baby girls.