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Trivia
Do you like trivia? Well, then you have come to the right place! Listed below are some of our most popular trivia answers.
  1. Toilet tank repairs are the most common do-it-yourself household plumbing project.
  2. The majority of toilet leaks are caused by a faulty or worn flapper - and symptomized by the need to jiggle the tank handle.
  3. In 1988, Massachusetts became the first state to legally require "low-flow" (1.6 gpf) toilets in all new or remodeled bathrooms. This switch became a federal mandate in 1994, and now applies to all 50 states.
  4. In a single year, one leaky toilet can waste enough water to fill a backyard swimming pool.
  5. Americans flush 4.8 billion gallons of water away every day. Each member of a family of three flushes a toilet four times per day.
  6. Toilet flushing accounts for 38% of household water use.
  7. The development of plumbing in the Western world has been traced to Mesopotamia, where earthenware pipes, masonry sewers and toilets were in use as early as 2500BC.
  8. The word "plumbing" is derived from the Latin word "plumbum," meaning lead, because early plumbers used lead to make pipes and fixtures.
  9. Sir Thomas Crapper is credited for patenting the first flush toilet in London in the late 1800's.