#SB50: Stadium prep includes flushing all 1,135 toilets, urinals, sinks at once. #SewerBowl

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A bowl tradition unlike any other, behold the Super Flush. When a stadium, arena, or large-scale entertainment venue like it opens, the plumbing is tested by flushing every single toilet, urinal, and sink drain at the same time. It’s been coined the Super Flush. It happened the year Super...

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SPACE: “May the force pee with you,” water recycling on the Space Station

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• December 15th, 2015
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It may not be a Star Wars galaxy far far away, but when astronauts are far from home, water is a life force. Astronaut Chris Hadfield shows us how the water flows on the International Space Station, featuring a closed-loop treatment system in which the water astronauts use—even their...

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TRENDING: Never forget, it was a toilet that made time travel possible. #BackToTheFutureDay

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• October 21st, 2015
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Back To The Future‘s Doc Brown and his illustration of the time-travel-enabling flux capacitor. The future has arrived. As the past. In the present. Thanks to a toilet. October 21, 2015 has been declared Back To The Future Day, a day of ’80s sci-fi nostalgia, the date to which...

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WATCH: Maryland man plows snow riding motorized toilet, via @AP

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• February 27th, 2015
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¯_(ツ)_/¯ RELATED STORIES: LIST: 5 of our favorite toilet bowl myths and legends HISTORY: Thank you, Seth Wheeler, for inventing perforated toilet paper LOOK: China has a waterfall made of toilet bowls. Because of course it does. TECH: Bath to the Future? Tomorrow’s bathrooms could feature smart fixtures

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HISTORY: Thank you, Seth Wheeler, inventor of the perforated toilet-paper roll

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• January 28th, 2015
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Image credit Neptuul via wikipedia Because we know you’ve been wondering, it was all Seth’s idea. The concept of rolled and perforated squares of toilet paper was patented in 1883 by Seth Wheeler. Prior to Seth’s innovation, toilet paper was sold commercially as flat sheets starting around 1857 thanks...

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LIST: Flush or fiction? 5 of our favorite toilet bowl myths and legends

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• December 4th, 2014
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Handy wipes are flushable: False. They may say flushable on the package. They are common in bathrooms across the country. But because disposable wipes don’t break down in the sewer system like toilet paper does, they can clog a home’s plumbing and cause major issues in city treatment systems....

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WEIRD: Minnesota man faces charges after clogging toilets with pounds of nails

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• October 6th, 2014
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We have an entire list of things people shouldn’t flush down the toilet. Looks like we need to add another one to it. A St. Paul, Minnesota man is being charged with first-degree property damage after he was alleged to have dumped pounds of hardware-store nails down toilets in...

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TECH: How to save your new iPhone 6+ if it falls in the toilet [#waittotweet]

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• September 9th, 2014
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Whether you’re waiting in line for Apple’s new iPhone 6 or still rocking your Blackberry, this can be useful. Or better yet, you could just wait to tweet.

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HISTORY: What were toilets like in 1776?

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• July 1st, 2014
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Whether America is celebrating its founding fathers or its independence, we ask a question about one item most of us are quite dependent upon today: What were toilets like in 1776? To understand the privies of the day, it’s best to look at the entire state of sanitation overall...

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VIDEO: Could this really be 1,000 miles of toilet paper?

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• April 6th, 2014
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Woah that’s a lot of toilet paper. It happened at a soccer match in Belgium. While we have absolutely no idea how much toilet paper this actually is, let’s make a few calculations and take a guess. Let’s say this was one corner of Cleveland Browns’ First Energy Stadium,...

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