AAA AUGER Plumbing Tulsa 10 Fun Facts About Plumbing

AAA AUGER Plumbing Tulsa introduces 10 fun facts about plumbing you might not know:

Mario and Luigi from the Super Mario Brothers series by Nintendo remain the world’s most famous plumbers.
President Nixon created White House Special Investigations Unit called “plumbers” to plug intelligence leaks in government actions related to the Vietnam War.
In Japan, some urinals can flush in response to voice-activated commands.
Albert Einstein was named an honorary member of the Plumbers and Steamfitters Union after saying, “If I had my life to live over again, I’d be a plumber.”
The term “plumber” is derived from “plumbrum,” the Latin word for lead.”
Copper piping, which remains the #1 material used for plumbing today, is the same material used to lay pipes in ancient Egypt.
The majority of toilets flush in the key of E flat.
Archaeologists trace indoor plumbing back to 2500 B.C.E after finding a water plumbing system in the Pyramid of Cheops in Egypt.
Low flush toilets can save up to 18,000 gallons of water per year.
In 1956, Sir John Harington received credit for inventing the first flushable toilet, nicknamed “the John.”