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Toilet fun fact:
Alexander Cumming was granted the first patent for a flush toilet. His breakthrough was the S-shaped pipe below the bowl, which used water to create a seal, preventing foul-smelling sewer gas from entering the room—a design still in use today.
Robin Williams had a great joke about that:
https://youtu.be/ZvMfXSwb6_M