Toilet Facts

The average person spends about 1 to 1.5 years of their life sitting on a toilet.

Each year, there are more than 40,000 toilet related injuries in the United States.

Kampang School in northeastern Thailand is the first school to open a toilet for transvestite pupils.

Nearly one in five Americans admit to flushing the toilet while still sitting on it.

Cash machines are as dirty as public toilets.

The flushing toilet was invented in 1596, not by Thomas Crapper as most people think, but by Sir John Harington.

It's possible to train your cat to use the toilet as a litter box and even flush afterwards.

Dentists have recommended that a toothbrush be kept at least 6 feet away from a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush.

Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho (1960) was the first American film to show a close-up of a toilet being flushed on screen.

A woman in Kansas who sat on the toilet for 2 years had to be rescued after she became physically stuck to it.

The average office desk has 400 times more bacteria than a toilet.

London once had a public toilet made entirely of one-way mirrored glass, allowing users to see pedestrians walking by while remaining invisible inside.

Researchers say that lining the toilet seat with paper is pretty much pointless