An average person visits the toilet 2,500 times per year. (6-8 times per day)
People spend at least 3 years of their lives on the toilet.
Seven million cell phones are dropped in the toilet per year.
Americans use a lot more toilet paper than any other country. (7 sheets on average)
People have flushed down the toilet: goldfish, false teeth, socks, underwear, bras, shirts, shoes, mice, hamsters, toy cars, action figures, Barbies, toothbrushes, and whole rolls of toliet paper.
Most toilets flush on an E-flat note.
10,000 times you have to change a baby's diaper until it learns how to go to the bathroom itself.
Men spend 140 days of his life shaving.
Brushing your teeth with the water on wastes 5 gallons of water. Shaving with the water on wastes 15 to 20 gallons.
Females takes 3 times longer than males in the bathroom.
Food historian Jeffrey Pilcher suggests that the word "taco" may have come from Mexican silver miners, who called small paper-wrapped gunpowder charges "tacos."
Chinese court official Cai Lun is traditionally credited with inventing paper around 105 AD, though older paper fragments show the craft existed earlier.
Papyrus isn't true paper. It's made by pressing strips of plant stalk together, while paper is made from plant fibers broken down into pulp, even though the word "paper" comes from "papyrus."
A popular myth says paper can't be folded in half more than seven times, but in 2002 high school student Britney Gallivan folded a long sheet in half 12 times.
Paper was mostly made from rags until the 1840s, when inventors including Friedrich Keller and Charles Fenerty developed ways to make it from wood pulp.