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Wallace Reyburn is a humourist author who is responsible for a number of well-known urban legends, including the widespread belief that the flush toilet was invented by Thomas Crapper and that the brassiere was invented by Otto Titzling. Reyborn is the author of a number of books, some humourous and some not, including multiple books on rugby and on Canadian armed forces as well as humourous yarns of pseudo-historical nonsense. Reyburn was also the editor at one time of the Canadian magazine New Liberty.

Books

Flushed With Pride: The Story of Thomas Crapper (1969) Bust Up: The Uplifting Tale of Otto Titzling and the Development of the Bra (1972)

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