Did you know that going to the toilet was originally a social event, with the aim of sharing an intimate moment?

HAKIZIMANA Maurice

Today, going to the toilet is a personal matter, it is done in complete privacy and many people do not like to be disturbed. But this was not the case from the beginning. Historians are convinced that the first toilets with a seat date back about 6,000 years, to the time of ancient Mesopotamia.

By 315 AD, Rome had 144 public toilets and going to the bathroom had become a social event. Here’s a 2,000-year-old public toilet dug into the Palatine Hill in Rome. It had over 50 holes side by side. A social even indeed, an occasion sharing an intimate moment.

Toilettes publiques romaines
In ancient Rome, going to the toilet was a social event.

Did you know?

The average person spends over six months of their life on the toilet, producing 145kg of excrement per year. This means that the average person worldwide produces over twice their own body weight in poop each year.

Also read: In French: “ça va” refers to pooh!

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