How The Toilet Changed History
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[PBSDS BUMPER] The average person gets rid of approximately 130 grams of poop every day. Maybe twice that much if they’ve had Taco Bell. Seven and a half billion of us on Earth? That’s a literal mountain of human poop every day. Yet most of *us* get to pretend it doesn’t exist, all thanks to an invention that has improved health and quality of life more than any other in humanity’s history. [OPEN BUMPER] Bears do it in the woods, whales do it in the ocean, and 2.4 *billion* of us DON’T do it in a toilet. Dysentery, typhoid, parasites, and other infections lead to hundreds of thousands of deaths every year, all because one in three people alive in 2017 don’t have access to toilets and latrines. From on top of our porcelain thrones, we’ve left ...
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[PBSDS BUMPER] The average person gets rid of approximately 130 grams of poop every day. Maybe twice that much if they’ve had Taco Bell. Seven and a half billion of us on Earth? That’s a literal mountain of human poop every day. Yet most of *us* get to pretend it doesn’t exist, all thanks to an invention that has improved health and quality of life more than any other in humanity’s history. [OPEN BUMPER] Bears do it in the woods, whales do it in the ocean, and 2.4 *billion* of us DON’T do it in a toilet. Dysentery, typhoid, parasites, and other infections lead to hundreds of thousands of deaths every year, all because one in three people alive in 2017 don’t have access to toilets and latrines. From on top of our porcelain thrones, we’ve left ...
