For your amusement, I’ve rounded up some interesting facts about bathrooms and toilets. Next time you happen to be chatting about your household plumbing, impress your friends with some of these gems:
- Brits spend an average of an hour and 42 minutes per week on the toilet. (source: The Scotsman)
- Brites spend another hour and 25 minutes of each week in the bathtub or shower (source: The Scotsman)
- Over their lifetime, women spend the equivalent of one year, seven months and 15 days in the bathroom, a month more than men do. (source: The Scotsman)
- The average desktop is covered in 400 times more bacteria than the average toilet seat. (source: ABC News)
- Americans use more toilet paper than people anywhere else in the world: seven sheets per bathroom trip, on average. (source: ABC News)
- The most common bathroom blunder is falling into the toilet when the seat is up. (source: Angel Soft)
- King George II of Great Britain died by falling off of a toilet. (source: Squidoo)
- Americans use 433 million miles of toilet paper annually, which is enough to stretch to the sun and back. (source: Squidoo)
- In the U.S., the toilet is flushed more times during the Super Bowl halftime than at any other time during the year. (source: Articlesbase)
