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Tell me about the history of toilets.
It was actually 300 years earlier, during the 16th century, that Europe discovered modern sanitation. The credit for inventing the flush toilet goes to Sir John Harrington, godson of Elizabeth I, who invented a water closet with a raised cistern and a small downpipe through which water ran to flush the waste in 1592.

Question: Where does the term come from
Self-contained rewrite: Where does the term toilet come from?