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[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 months ago (3 children)

I believed for a long time as a kid that the toilet was invented by John Crapper.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Ha! Must have been so disappointed when you learned it was Louis Toilette!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Baseball great Albert Pujols has no doubt of their plural importance.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

Well, not the WHOLE toilet, but he did invent the Floating Ballcock!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

It wasn’t? I’ve believed this since I was a kid.