A brief history of toilets - Francis de los Reyes
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- Explore the history of the toilet and how waste management has evolved from from ancient Mesopotamia to modern day.
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On sunny days, citizens of ancient Rome could be found exchanging news and gossip while attending to more urgent business at the public latrines. Today, most cultures consider trips to the restroom to be a more private occasion. But even when going alone, our shared sewage infrastructure is one of the most pivotal inventions in human history. Francis de los Reyes shares the history of the toilet.
Lesson by Francis de los Reyes, directed by Igor Coric, Artrake Studio.
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It would seem to me that you would be able to find something other than an animated pile of $hit to do the narration. Strange that you would make that choice.
@@jcopp2031 I think it was good
@@UselessWeakling I'm not surprised.
AAAAAAAAAA it’s a good video
You should of called it the story of $#!+
Watching this while in the toilet makes me feel connected to my ancestors.
Which dictionary to use Google Oxford Webster or theasarus?
@@deepakkumarnath7683 Google doesn't have a dictionary.
@@picklejuice8210 Yeah right Lol
Lol
@@picklejuice8210 mhm
the fact that one of the people to contribute to the history of toilets was named Jonathan Crapper is so perfect I refuse to believe it wasn't intentional
He was way ahead of his time lmaooo
he was destined to do that lol
maybe just like 2nd names can mean professions "smith being the most known one", his family was one working on that field
@@zawsrdtygbhjimokpl6998 are you implying that his family's legacy profession was taking dumps
@@zawsrdtygbhjimokpl6998 that makes no sense
“No one asked for this, everyone watched this” is TED’s specialty
mom: what are u doing?
me: learning history of toilets from an animated poop.
_poop_
Poop
Poop
thicc poop
*POOP* !
Kurzgesagt: You know what happened to dinosaurs?
TedEd: You know what happened to toilets?
Finally a comment that shares my pain
We are people of culture and knowledge.
Impeccable timing
Watched both of them today. 2 of my most favorite CZcams channels😊
@@kellenwong1321 so true
Imagine being known as the Groom of the Stool.
Mike Pences new title?
Imagine being named "Tom Crapper"
Very elegant
I call myself that but my wife isn't happy about it
During that time, it was a highly prized position.
Dad: "what are you learning"
Me : "History"
Dad: *"Good"*
😂😂😂🙌
Which chapter kiddo?
@@ahuman4553 poopstory
@@humanbeing8022 😂
@@ahuman4553 poopology
We often talk about how we couldn't survive without phones while time travelling to the past, but the importance of modern plumbing goes vastly underappreciated
I love the beginning music that makes it seems like this is just your average Roman sitcom.
It makes me feel like I'm watching an infomercial on toilets.
shitcom*
@@woof815 Lmao
Finally, something educational about toilets other than memes of how people use toilets at gas stations, or the horrible designs of public bathrooms.
Lol 😂
agreed. people today wouldn't be able to live without toilets.
True czcams.com/video/jlbRSPvIUms/video.html
Do you want to see the worst public bathroom in a bad, bad state? I have some *cool* photos.
I approve your pfp of monokuma
Thomas Crapper: *"It's like I was made for this"*
The Indus valley civilization had an extremely scientific drainage system with bathrooms and toilets as well. Our ancestors were really amazing
What happened to them now, why are you using our designs then.
@@anenglishmanplusamerican7107why are you using our numbers
@@anenglishmanplusamerican7107 What exactly is your point? There are ups and downs in every civilization. Also, your designs? "Your" designs are slight improvements on our designs.
@@untitled6391
Not necessarily, my friend. I agree that every civilisation does have its ups and downs, not denying that. But how much were your designs accessible to disabled individuals? Did you ever think of that? Or did you just let them rot away, as we used to in medieval times? Call yourself advanced, but you’re no different from us. You cannot deny the significant cultural influence that my country, England, has had on yours and your people. From language to literature, traditions to institutions, the impact of English culture is undeniable. I’m not claiming superiority, as I’m a common folk myself, and I have suffered as much as your people have at the hands of hypocrisy. But culturally, I’m proud of what we have achieved as English people, and the positive contributions we have made to the world, including India, where our influence has left an indelible mark on art, language, education, and governance.
@@anenglishmanplusamerican7107 not you guys fighting our whose design is better. Its a humanity's invention and everyone has right to make themselves accessible to whatever is best and whatever is more to come. Anyways just letting you guys know that if you guys still use toilet papers then you guys should shift to Jet sprays, no hand involvement, just better.
Love how the Romans used to gossip and exchange news on the toilet. Today we just get news or drama from our phones, usually on the toilet.
Some Chinese still do it, although it is slightly more private.
:0 i have never taken my phone with me to the toilet, that doesn't sound right to me xD
Absolutely true
It took me a minute to realize the poop was actually narrating.
I didn't realise
That was a highlight of the video for me. What a plot twist!
lol
It took me this comment to realise
He was telling where and how did his ancesters travel
Imagine touching a rock, then suddenly realizing it’s hard poop from the Ancient BC
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
It can be 🦖 💩 or “brown rock” 🪨 💩 emitted by humans that took the shape of a long sausage
Maybe we really CAN polish a turd . . . 😂
Bought a bidet from Samsung 6 years ago. Heated seats, auto clean, dryer and super easy to install myself, also our toilet paper consumption has less than halved. Quite possibly the best thing I've ever bought. How people still only use paper is truly beyond my comprehension now.
My bidet just broke and now i feel like I’m living in medieval times manually cleaning myself. 😞
I bought one from Amazon a few days ago and it's arriving today!
@@yettispaghetti6784how is it for you?
@@LavroseRovender It's great! It feels like it completely cleans you and does definitely saves toilet paper. If you don't have the luxury of buying a really expensive bidet or want to test the waters out first without making a big commitment there's a lot of varieties of affordable bidets as well that solely come with a bidet attachment for any toilet. I would say mine was definitely worth it though.
🤦♂️ Look at America
The entire world’s been using water to wash their thing for milennia.
Now you people are finally figuring this out
"The flush toilet, more than any single invention, has civilized us in a way that religion and law could never accomplish"
The man who said this is absolutely legend.
czcams.com/video/jlbRSPvIUms/video.html
Yes, very well put I'd like to know who that was, its all very well pushing for the ltest and greatest tecnologies to push our lives that extra inch forward in quality of life but to better advance ourselves we need the basics. Think of it even of managing resources, that waste is finite and so are the people we have at our disposal.
@@Ellipsis115 The quote is at the start of the video with its author and origin.
Willie Nelson.
I absolutely 1000% agree with this quote
i use the toilet as a place to think of the secrets of the universe
Same
U not alone.Mate
Hmm
seems about right
I unleash bigbang in toilet
Just happened upon this a minute ago and honestly was not expecting how interesting and informative it actually was.
The fact named THOMAS CRAPPER contributed to the toilet is so f-cking hilarious
I was touched by the sad Ending.
Bye bye teaching Poopie! 🥺
🤏🏻🤏🏻💩💩❤️❤️🤣🤣🤣
Yes. He shall be missed 😔
😂😂😂😂
Wouldn't he join his poop friends in the sewage?
Same
"The history of humanity's closest friend second to our beds"
- austrian painter
False quote and incorrect name.
@@aliensinmyass7867 They never said it was true do you know what meme quotes are becasue I think you put about as much time thinking as much effort put into your pfp
@@aliensinmyass7867 wooosh
Good god the brief mention of Austrian Painter makes me think that you use Facebook and makes comments in Actual Fact Bot.
@@nyan2317 no i'm not a bot and i use elmore plus not facebook
This channel is freakin' awesome! Whenever I watch your videos, I'm filled with nostalgia about my good old days.
Jesus Christ, Thomas Crapper cracks me up 😂😂
😡
The beginning reminds me of a quote from the Hercules movie: "Indoor plumbing...It's gonna be BIG"
lol.. well.. the fates were never wrong.. even the gods feared and respected them
lol.. well.. the fates were never wrong.. even the gods feared and respected them
We often take simple things around us for granted.
However, these things are among the most important or even indispensable parts of our lives.
This very educational video about toilets from TED reminded me to always be grateful for what I have.
4g5fygudfrtrfrrfrrt4544/@ t (rue
People nowadays have everything at their disposal, and are always complaining about something
I spent a month in Mongolia back in 2019, and you can bet your pooper I came back with an open-eyed appreciation of American bathrooms both public and private!
who watches this while pooping
Me 😂😂😂
Me, haha. And i didnt even realise it until i read your comment.
What is the greatest invention of humans?
T O I L E T S
lol
Indeed
❤️💩🚽
Your brain
Writing, toilets, glass, refrigeration.
3:44 You might not know this but Sir John Harrington is actually an ancestor of the actor Kit Harrington, who played Jon Snow in Game of Thrones!
He made toilet for Jon Snow during his time at the Wall
@@drak3661 And wrote the ending of the show inspired by it.
and it’s called the john lmao
And John Snow was an English doctor who discovered that an infected water pump was the source of a cholera outbreak in London in 1854!
@@Sarv7278 I think Extra History talked about him.
It is surreal to think that people in ancient times took sanitation more seriously than their medieval successors.
Thank you, I've been oddly curious about this ever since my boyfriend has been in Alaska this summer (for a job commercial fishing) and the house hes been staying in before they leave doesn't have indoor plumbing, he's had to use an outhouse. In 2021, Americans still use outhouses. Idk why, but I think that's wildly fascinating.
Fun Fact: When people threw their sewage out into the streets, they would say "Gardyloo" which came from french "Regardez l'eau" which means "look out for the water". That's why is parts of Europe they call it a loo.
their*
sounds made up
could believe it, in Spain they would say "agua va!" or "water incoming!"
Deaf people: _Why am I here? Just to suffer..._
@@hazzmati
No, this is an accepted etymology.
Gongs were common in my Brazilian neighborhood as late as the 1990s. Even my household had one during my early childhood, and I hear there are still some in the countryside.
Even after public sewage was made widely available, some people resisted connecting their homes to the sewers in order to avoid waste removal bills, choosing to keep their gongs, to discharge waste directly on the local creek or even connecting their home waste to the rain drainage. Took a few years to convince them all to use the sewers..
Never ever thought I'll watch a video on this topic. TED-Ed you answer some questions I never think of!
I love every every word which you spoke. Sometimes when I watch such informative videos with so much creativity I feel like making some personal notes for me for future gk haha
I was fascinated by the history of toilets and how different countries and empires used toilets.
The castle toilet system was really very interesting. Thanks for making this video for the CZcams audience. We really need such things to make our brain explore the diverse ways of the common things which we use everyday.
🇮🇳 Greetings from India
Im watching this while in the toilet, and it's a thousand times better
Me too brother, me too
Asian parents will kill us for taking phone to toilet
@@ForteExpresso true bro
@@ForteExpresso just don't tell them👀
@@ForteExpresso i do it yet nothing happens
No one
Literally no one
Me :- learning a brief history of toilets while eating food
Lunch break crew represent!
@@casperdigo8831 why are you so rude
@@casperdigo8831 kid
Play fortnite
History is not for you
@@casperdigo8831 that's kinda sus 🤔
@@casperdigo8831 your sarcasm lol
This may be petty but I never stop bragging about how holistically advanced the Indus valley civilization was, especially in the terms of plumbing and sewage, over 3000 years before Europe was a literal cesspool
Finally someone said this thanks ❤️
The video is about flush toilets. The Indus civilisation didn't have those.
For some reason i love videos about waste management, could you guys make a video about the pros and cons of compost toilets?
The background OST has no right being this good
It's so smoooth!
To think that there was actually a time where modesty standards were much lower than todays. I'd love to see a video on the change of social standards over time and across the world.
School system: We have developed an online schooling system to help the students and stop them from cheating
Me: History Of Toilets
I been saying this is one of the most underrated and important inventions of all time!!
Kurzgesagt and ted-ed uploading videos in the same hour is bliss.
except kurgezagt now are more on promoting advertisement than educating ppl
Videos like this should appear more. They are educational and not just intended to displease people just for the sake of it. I learned something today. Thank you TedEd 💙
Why do I smell this video?
I smell it too, and it smells discussion
I like how the background music is the music of a restroom from one of the hotels I visited. I just really liked that restroom, it was well cleaned and good toilet paper.
I am so impressed with the early sewage systems. Some places TODAY still don't have anything like that.
I don't care what Ted-Ed make, I am watching it
1:18 My India.
Watching this in the toilet . Proud moments
If only I had turned on notifications for this sensational channel, I would've been first
If only I werent on tiktok
I love how Ted Ed just adds public restroom music as a overlay on the history of toilets
"The so-called S trap was later improved into the modern U-bend by Thomas Crapper."
It's like he was born for this.
Bro in india , Harappa culture used to have proper toilets and drainage system which is more than 3500bc old
I'm going to tell my kids this was the real emoji movie.
and damn it would be much better if you shown them the actual one
"The flush toilet, more than any single invention, has civilized us in a way that religion and law could never accomplish." -Thomas Lynch🧐
Agreed
Or, as Tommy Toilet says, "Flush you worries away!" 😂
Because religions sole purpose is to control you while a toilets purpose is to be there for you whenever you need it. What a friend.
1:36 I came to the realization that I was being lectured by a turd.
I appreciate modern toilet more than internet or cell phone
Finally I am feeling so happy while going to the washroom.
The animation is still freakin' amazing eventhough it's about toilet
the way teded just answers stuff people dont even ask amazes me on how many views their vids get
I had no idea sewers were around that far back. It's crazy we lost it for a while in the middle ages
I love how most of Ted-Ed videos have very interesting titles along with cute graphics (this one gives away game vibes, because of background music as well) and relate it with essential social problems
0:22 this still happens in our village😂😂
where
🤣❤️💩💩💩🤏🏻
@@ohm9114 😒
Hey bro I am your neighbour. I am from Nepal .
I've actually been thinking about how toilets and are sewage systems is preety cool. Thanks Ted-Ed.👍
Well, I completely agree with the quote at the beginning of the video. I was taking it for granted as a joke but now I have signed up for this. Let's watch!
I once joked to my friends that if somebody Ted makes animation video on toilets I would still watch it.
Fun fact: I'm using the toilet while watching its' history. Amazing.
Me, seeing this in my feed:
"Seriously youtube?"
also me:
** watches it anyway **
Watching this whilst taking a dump transcended my mind to a different level of hands on learning
If I remember correctly, Harington who invented the flush toilet, is an ancestor of the actor who played Jon Snow in Got.
Imagine being a descendant and boasting about how their ancestor invented toilets
Yeah Kit Harrington, the actor!
Indians can't relate
@@saun654 seen the video? Indus civilization is father of indian civilization
@@saun654 India pretty much-invented toilets.
@@saun654 Ah Indus valley is what essentially India,Pakistan,and all those countries
wow...i wont ever take my toilet for granted. this rlly shows me to not take anything for granted
Thank you for sharing knowledge about my ancestors
One of many reason to be happy about living in this day and age rather than the ancient times.
I like how ted ed continue higher production of videos while maintaining standard.
There are times when TED Ed has very high standard and times when said standards go down the toilet per normal
I remember Prof. Francis de los Reyes Ted talk. Glad to see a Ted-Ed video
This is so educational and informative!!! I love this!!!!
Great Explanation. Watching this making me feel like I should go for toilet for no reason 😂👍
Something to watch while doing your business at the toilet
The music choice is perfect.
This is very helpful for world building, thanks!
I'm glad that they make animated videos 😂
Me too my guy
0:43 "Pivotal Invention" 🤣🤣
To those who didn't get it, the lower region is called the pivot. So, ted ed made a pun. A nice pun. Very punny.
As a plumber, this is so fascinating. My trade will always be in need
Thank you
Producer: I'm already run out of idea for this month.
Manager: Lets talk about toilet.
Ancient Mesopotamia had sewage system, while today there are many places without.
100 percent EDUCATIONAL!!!
Very good journalism. Keep up the good work
Now we've come to the point of studying toilets.
Hey its learning.
@@happythumbsgaming8606 And something which shoild be given importance to
YT recommends this to me while I am eating noodles.
I never thought toilets can this be interesting, thanks Ted-Ed!
I am from India, UP in my village still half of the population don't have toilets at their home. They go on farm field to excrete.
Farms are usually very big though so I wouldn’t think it’s too big a problem but not sure
"And there's only one big toilet, and they make you all go at the same time!"
Thanks for the advice 😀
I never knew toilets (an everyday object) can have such a complicated backstory.
bit disappointed that we are living in 21st century and yet more than half of world' population either don't have access to private toilet or their facilities fail in properly managing waste, although thought of having obesity and starvation at the same time sounds even more absurd ...
it disappoints me that, when we are are the precipice of a worldwide shortage of the elixir of life- potable water- that the rich countries still sh*t in clean drinking water.
toilets have not changed in basic concept since they were invented. but there are definately MUCH better ways to dispose of our waste- ways that don't pollute and deplete the environment and the fresh water supply. actually, our waste, if properly managed, can positively contribute to the planet.
thing is, composting, vermaculture, leech fields, etc. have no massive profit potential, and involve a little actual work and time and responsibility from individual humans. probably for these reasons, it's actually illegal in most places, in the usa at least.
@@nonyabizness.original That's actually a weird fear that I have. That the water I'm drinking actually contains sh*t in it.