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Greatest invention in the last 100 years

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The segway!

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At 2 AM in the morning (with the outside temperature below zero) you wake up and have to go to the bathroom. The greatest invention is INSIDE PLUMBING WITH A FLUSH TOILET.

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ScriptOhio said:
At 2 AM in the morning (with the outside temperature below zero) you wake up and have to go to the bathroom. The greatest invention is INSIDE PLUMBING WITH A FLUSH TOILET.
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Sorry, but indoor plumbing with a flush tolilet is more than 100 years old.

From wikipedia:

Toilets appeared early in history. In the year 2500 BCE, the people of Harappa in India had water borne toilets in each house that were linked with drains covered with burnt clay bricks.

The invention of the flush toilet is credited to Sir John Harington in 1596, though it took improvements in the Victorian era (likely spearheaded by Alexander Cummings rather than Thomas Crapper as is commonly stated) for flushing toilets to become widely used.
 
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The wooden golf tee.
Golf is too slow already - can you imagine how long it would take with everyone having to make a pile of sand to tee their ball on?

Next, the leather tip for pool cues - revolutionized the game by allowing spin to be imparted to the cueball (shoops, mor than 100 years old)

And certainly not least, the recliner.
 
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