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Entrepreneur Thomas Crapper was born on this day in 1836. We hate to break it to you, but he did not invent the toilet. He was a plumber, though, and founded the Thomas Crapper & Company sanitation business. Manholes with the company name on them in Westminster Abbey are a popular tourist attraction, specifically for brass rubbings. We're sure Chaucer, and all the other poets interred in the Abbey's famous Poet's Corner, are thrilled.
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