Toilet trivia for Christmas
Everyone is interested in toilet trivia so for the festive season we have compiled a list of fun facts featuring everything you ever wanted to know about toilets - plus one or two things you didn’t!
1. The average person spends three years of their life sitting on the toilet.
2. The first ever film to feature a flushing toilet was Alfred Hitchock’s “Psycho”. The scene caused scores complaints on the grounds of indecency.
3. A rat can survive after being flushed down the toilet by treading water for up to three days. After that – beware - he may re-emerge in the same loo.
4. Washroom visitors routinely avoid the first toilet cubicle in the row, which is why it is often the cleanest.
5. Around 90 per cent of medicines we take are excreted via urination, and studies have shown traces of estrogen, painkillers, antibiotics, caffeine and anti-depressants in fish.
6. Japanese ladies’ toilets often feature a push-button device that simulates a flushing sound. This was developed to allow shy Japanese women to mask toilet noises without actually wasting any water.
7. Most toilets flush in the key of E flat.
8. Toilets in space resemble on-land versions – except that washroom visitors need to be strapped in by the legs and feet to prevent them floating away.
9. The world’s oldest flushing toilet is believed to date back to China from between 206 BC and 24 AD). In 2000 archaeologists discovered what they believe to be one of the world's oldest known water closets that could be flushed with piped water.
10. Before the invention of toilet paper people resorted to natural solutions depending on their location. Items used included leaves, sticks, hay, sheep’s wool, corn cobs, tundra moss, snow and even coconut shells!
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