100 Dirty Facts About Toilets

100 Mind-Blowing Facts About Toilets

• Chinese have also built public toilets for dogs.
• Arthur Giblin is believed to have invented the first flushable toilet.
• A kitchen sponge is 200 times dirtier than a toilet seat.
• In 1890, Scott Paper Company introduced toilet paper in a roll.
• The average person visits the toilet 2,500 times a year.
• Three out of four people put the flap in front, to stock the toilet paper in their toilet.
• More toilets are flushed during the Super Bowl half-time break than any other time of year.
• Urea, a key chemical in your urine can kill fungi and bacteria.
• NASA recently spent $23.4 million for designing a suction toilet, which could be used in the International Space Station.
• Just 60 years ago, one-quarter of the households in rural America didn’t have indoor plumbing. In the South, 50 percent of households lacked an indoor toilet.
• Globally, nearly 3 billion people still don’t have indoor plumbing.
• More people around the world own cellphones than toilets.
• The honor of being the first works to show film of a flushing toilet go to Hitchcock’s Psycho, for movies, and later Leave It to Beaver, for television, both in the 1960s.
• The Scot Paper Company was the first to manufacture toilet paper on a roll, in 1890.
• According to the NIH, about four million Americans suffer from constipation.
• To your surprise, bathroom is a reason for argument among 70% of the couples in the U.K.
• On an average babies change their nappy 10,000 times before they (babies) learn to use the bathroom themselves. Tough job for a single parent, isn’t it?
• The average kitchen chopping board has around 200% more fecal bacteria on it than a toilet seat.
• Germs from a flushing toilet can move ahead up to 6 feet. Every time you flush your toilet, germs get air lifted and can become a potential cause of infection. Therefore, it is advised to move out quickly once you flush the toilet.
• Originally, ‘toilet’ means – “act of washing, dressing, and preparing oneself”. This is derived from French.
• While it’s difficult to pinpoint the inventor of the modern toilet, Englishman Alexander Cumming secured the first patent for a flushing toilet in 1775.
• A toilet uses almost seven gallons of water each time it is flushed.
• In public restrooms, the first toilet cubicle is always the least used — which also means it is always the cleanest.
• Only 80% of people wash their hands after using the toilet, and only 30% of those who do wash choose to use soap.
• Only 5% of people wash their hands for the recommended minimum of 15 seconds.
• The average person spends a cumulative three years sitting on a toilet during his or her life.
• The average person uses a toilet about 2,500 times annually.
• England’s King George II died in 1760 after falling off his toilet.
• In 1890, the Scot Paper Company became the first manufacturer to use a roll for toilet paper.
• About 75% of Americans place toilet paper on holders so the flap rolls over the top rather than rolling around the back.
• Studies show the amount of time spent on a toilet is directly proportional to the number of features the toilet’s user has on his or her smartphone.
• More than 7 million Americans have confessed to dropping their phones in the toilet.
• An estimated 2.6 billion people around the world lack access to a modern toilet.
• NASA invested more than $20 million in a suction-style toilet for the International Space Station.
• A toilet or bathroom around the world goes by different names, including potty, privy, water closet, latrine, dunny, john, can, facility, restroom, washroom, powder room, lavatory, outhouse, convenience, bog, khazi, garderobe, cloakroom, throne room and many more.
• As per the data collected by the World Toilet Organization, 1 billion people in the world defecate in the open.
• And as per a study, the more features your smart phone has, the longer you sit in the toilet.
• There are more TVs in Afghanistan than there are toilets. Interestingly, ninety percent of the population has TVs while only 7% has flush toilets.
• Did you know that you were flushing up to 26 liters of water in every single flush?
• You could easily find the cleanest toilet in a public place, if you remember that the first toilet cubicle in a row, is the least used and thus the cleanest of all.
• The World Toilet Organization was founded on 19 November 2001 and on this day every year World Toilet Day is celebrated.
• Be cautious! Accidents do happen in toilets. King George II even died falling off one in 1760. And nearly 40,000 Americans are injured in toilets every year.
• No one can avoid the call of nature. We happen to visit toilets about 2500 times a year and may be more when having a bad stomach during many times a year.
• Toilet paper is rumored to have been invented in China in the 6th century.
• You may be surprised to learn that almost 20% of the people do not wash their hands after they visit toilet. And of those who do, only 30%, use soap to wash their hands.
• Over 7 million people in the U.S. have admitted to have dropped their cell phones in the toilet bowl. Isn’t it a valid reason for you not to carry your cell phone to the toilet?
• It might help you to know that mobiles phones have 18 times bacteria than the toilet handles.
• One may be prone to kidney and bladder diseases, if they suppress their urination just because the toilets at public places are not clean.
• Rigorous washing of hands with soap for about 15-20 seconds is recommended for killing harmful germs. However, only 5% people wash their hands for 15 seconds or more.
• Though this fact has nothing to do with toilets, you might be surprised to know that your TV remote can even kill you. It is the worst in terms of the bacteria it carries.
• An important fact for the ladies: Urinary flow is usually stronger and easier when women squat to urinate. The bladder is emptied more completely when squatting rather than sitting or “hovering”.
• Prolonged sitting on the toilet seat can lead to hemorrhoids. Therefore, for avoiding health complications later in your life, avoid using your mobile phone or reading news paper while using the toilet. Such habits are a cause of hemorrhoids.
• Some common words used for the loo are: powder room, lavatory, outhouse, ladies, convenience, washroom, men’s room, bathroom, dunny, bog, khazi, gents, garderobe, necessary, women’s room, restroom, potty, privy, the smallest room, cloakroom, latrine, place of easement, water closet (WC), john, can, little girls’ room, little boys’ room, throne room and facilities etc.
• How much time do you think you spend sitting on a toilet in your life? Experts estimate that people spend anywhere from three months to three years of their life on a toilet.
• Every day, the average person visits a toilet between six and eight times.
• Manufacturers of artificial Christmas trees have used their innovative equipment to create brushes for cleaning toilets.
• People had to pay a penny to use the first public toilets that were installed in the Crystal Palace in London around 1850.
• Before toilet paper arrived on the scene in 1857, people used whatever was at their disposal.
• There are fewer germs on a toilet seat than there are on a computer keyboard �" 200 times less.
• There are fewer germs on a toilet handle than there are on a mobile phone �" 18 times less.
• Shockingly, there are more germs on an office desk than on a toilet.
• Possibly the worst offender: public restroom toilet handles carry, on average, 40,000 germs for every square inch. Yuck.
• If you really love facts about toilets, visit the Taiwanese restaurant with a toilet theme. The restaurant serves food on replica toilets.
• Every flush uses, on average, 1.6 gallons of water to dispose of the waste.
• From the outset, dealing with toilet odors was on users’ minds. Early toilet air fresheners consisted of pomegranates adorned with cloves.
• $100,000 in tax dollars went toward determining how the majority of Americans “installed” toilet paper: front-facing or back-facing. It turns out that three-quarters of Americans put their toilet paper on the holder with the paper in front.
• At least one person has died while falling off the “throne”: King George II of England in 1760.
• Alfred Hitchcock’s “Psycho” was the first film to show a toilet being flushed which caused several complaints about indecency.
• It is said that the first toilet cubicle in a row of public toilets is the least occupied.
• Elvis Presley, Top Gun producer Don Simpson, and comedian Lenny Bruce are just some of the famous people who have died in a bathroom.
• It is estimated that each year, more than 40,000 people suffer toilet-related injuries in the U.S.
• Hong Kong is home to the world’s most expensive toilet. It is made of solid gold and sits proudly in the washroom at Hang Fung Gold Technology Group.
• The plastic toilet brush was invented in 1932 by William C. Schopp and patented by the Addis Brush Company in 1933.
• The first underground sewer in the city of Rome was laid by the Etruscans around 500 BC.
• You may have to visit space if you want to see the most expensive toilet in the world. It is fitted in the International Space Station. It costs around 19 million dollars.
• Do you like the fragrance of the air freshener you use in your toilet? During the early days, pomegranates stuffed with cloves were used to make ‘the first ever toilet air freshener’.
• The oldest toilet is still functioning about 4000 years after it was built. It can be seen in Knossos in Greece in a small castle.

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