{"id":217178,"date":"2010-01-04T04:49:56","date_gmt":"2010-01-04T09:49:56","guid":{"rendered":"tag:feeds2.feedburner.com:\/\/67a1e477633baec3f2a4acec9f91fe14"},"modified":"2010-01-04T04:49:56","modified_gmt":"2010-01-04T09:49:56","slug":"when-and-how-were-the-worlds-first-flushable-toilets-used","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/217178","title":{"rendered":"When And How Were The World&#8217;s First Flushable Toilets Used?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is amazing to know that the world&#8217;s first flush-able toilets were invented in Ancient Rome, which was when the system of flushing down the waste into a disposal system, albeit a hole in the ground was first created. <\/p>\n<div class=\"image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blurtit.com\/var\/question\/q\/q3\/q39\/q394\/q3941\/q394111_40036_443_4004578745_6d4aef7575.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/2.0\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blurtit.com\/css\/common\/cc.png\" style=\"vertical-align:text-bottom;width:16px;height:16px;border:0;\" title=\"Creative Commons License\"\/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/41138825@N00\/\" >SpecialKRB<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The users could actually sit and go, and then flush happily. However, some people believe that it was British inventor Alexander Cumming who patented a toilet in 1775, and there are others who think that it was Thomas Crapper who was responsible for inventing the world&#8217;s first flush toilet complete with a valve and siphon arrangement sometime during the early twentieth century. <\/p>\n<p>Nevertheless, the initial model of a flush-able toilet has been improved upon, and today, the average person spends about three years of their lifetime sitting on the toilet, and then flushing! <\/p>\n<p>The world&#8217;s first toilet paper was invented in England in the 1880&#8217;s, at which time it was sold in single sheets! The infamous &#8216;World Toilet Day&#8217; happens on the 19th of November every year.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/Blurtit\/~4\/chT9CD-3LkU\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is amazing to know that the world&#8217;s first flush-able toilets were invented in Ancient Rome, which was when the system of flushing down the waste into a disposal system, albeit a hole in the ground was first created. SpecialKRB The users could actually sit and go, and then flush happily. However, some people believe [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-217178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217178\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}