If Rome never existed we would not have the calendar, or Flushing toilets and sewers. In Rome large pots were often left on street corners for people to urinate into so that the liquid could be collected and used in the tanning of animal hides and in cleaning, yup that’s right they used it to clean… I some multi-story swellings a system of pipes channeling fasces down to ground level where the Night Soil Men could collect it and take it to be used as fertilizer. Roman public toilets where rather more sophisticated, though admittedly not nearly so useful for industries hoping to capitalize on freely available human waste. The system was made possible by several aqueducts (another Roman innovation) that flowed into the city, giving its citizens
