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20 Bathroom Facts You Never Knew

January 18, 2012 Random OMG Facts

• An average person visits the toilet 2,500 times per year. (6-8 times per day) People spend at least 3 years of their lives on the toilet.
• Females takes 3 times longer than males in the bathroom.
• The sink has 100,000 germs per square inch, where the toilet seat only has 100 germs per square inch. But, with every flush of the toilet you do send an invisible six foot plume of bacteria that lands on exposed surfaces, including toothbrushes.
• Americans use 433 million miles of toilet paper annually which could stretch to the sun and back.
• You have to change a baby’s diaper 10,000 times until it learns how to go to the bathroom itself?
• Paper towels decrease hand bacteria by 29 percent, a hand dryer increases it by 162 percent.
• The bathroom uses around 49% of all water inside the home.
• Three out of four women (74.2%) leave the bathroom door open when they are home alone.
• 43 percent of homes in the U.S. have two or more bathrooms, and shockingly enough 18 percent of those homeowners scrub and clean their shower in the nude.
• On average twenty people die from scalds caused by hot bath water every year.
• A tap left running can waste up to 17 litres of water per minute.
• King George II of Great Britain died falling off a toilet on the 25th of October 1760.
• 45.2% of people pee in the shower.YUCK!!
• A lady in Kansas was stuck on the toilet for nearly 2 years. The Kansas’ woman skin had actually formed around the toilet seat.
• An estimated 2.6 billion people worldwide do not have access to proper bathroom facilities, particularly in rural areas of China and India.
• In a 1992 survey, British public toilets were voted the worst in the world.
• Seven million mobile phones are dropped in the toilet per year.
• At Leeds festival in 2009 Charlotte Taylor got herself stuck in the toilet. She was there for twenty minutes with her head wedged in the toilet before the fire brigade arrived to rescue her.
• 66% of men admit to showering with another adult for intimacy compared to 55% of women who admit to having an intimate shower.
• 64% of women think about their to do lists in the shower compared to 48% of men

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