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I've read the bathroom reader for years now, and it is completely perfect piece of bathroom literature. Because of this fine book, I look forward to "Droping the kids off at the pool."

So for those of you who like to fill up on pointless and stupid information while you release protien shake left-overs, I recomend the Bathroom Reader.

Bathroom Reader



The factoids on the bottom of each page in the Bathroom Readers are called running feet.

Why? 'Cause that's what Uncle John felt like calling them! Many of our members have requested a whole book of running feet and we thought that in the meantime, we'd organize them by topic and display them on this page.

The topic will change every month or so just to keep you on your toes!

Bathroom Facts


Flush away! The average toilet will last about 50 years before it has to be replaced.

Japan reportedly has far fewer flush toilets than any other modern industrialized nation.

Americans use 4.8 billion gallons of water flushing toilets each day.

BRI's favorite Barbie accessory: A pink toilet with real flushing action (but no toilet paper).

For her 40th birthday, Sophia Loren's husband gave her a 14-karat gold toilet seat.

Toilet Rock, a natural rock formation shaped like a flush toilet, is in City of Rocks, NM.

Whenever actress Joan Crawford remarried, she replaced all the toilet seats in her house.

What'd they do before that? Trains didn't have toilets until the 1850s.

American Joseph Gayetty invented toilet paper in 1857.

The Scott brothers of Philadelphia marketed the first successful toilet paper roll in 1867.

Buculets are those little bumpers on the underside of your toilet seat.

Most toilets flush in E flat; most electric razors buzz in B flat. (English razors buzz in G.)

Odds of being injured by a toilet seat in your lifetime: 1 in 6,500.

Coincidence? The Pentagon uses up 666 rolls of toilet paper on an average day.

Bathroom readers beware: Fine for leaving a public toilet unflushed in Singapore: $150.

Most-requested care package item by U.S. troops in Saudi Arabia: toilet paper.

Snot funny: The Japanese have been blowing their noses on tissue paper for over 300 years.

Tissue paper was first used to separate folds of gold-woven cloth known as "gold tissue."

Bathroom fact: The average water temperature for showers in the U.S. is 105šF.

Bathroom fact: Armadillos can be housebroken.

Bathroom fact: The average baby spends 27.5 months in diapers.

Bathroom news: Franklin Roosevelt thought up the name United Nations while in the shower.

Poll results: 7% of Americans say they have a radio in their bathroom.

If you took an average shower today, you used about 30 gallons of water.

On average, American males spend 11.4 minutes taking a shower. Females take 13 minutes.

How do you wash your pet? 3% of Americans shower with them.

Before disposable diapers? Marion Donovan made the first diaper cover out of a shower curtain.

Fill your bathtub with water 20,000 times. That much water falls over Niagara Falls every second.

Jean-Paul Marat and Agamemnon were both slain in their bathtubs by women.

Weighing 332 pounds, U.S. President William Howard Taft once trapped himself in a bathtub.

One large oak tree can drink as much as three bathtubs worth of water every day.

Looney law: In Brooklyn, it's illegal to let a dog sleep in your bathtub.

Would a water softener help? 500 Americans are injured in their bathtubs each day.

Alaska has more outhouses than any other state.

Immediately after the last episode of M*A*S*H*, New York City's sewer flow increased by 320 million gallons, the equivalent of 1 million toilets flushing simultaneously.

The Union Ironclad Monitor was the first ship to have a flush toilet.

First Flush: There are 34 bathrooms in the White House.

Four things that kill germs: 1) Sunshine; 2) Fresh air; 3) Soapy water; 4) Tears.

Supermarket news: The top 3 products for coupon redemption are cold cereal, soap, and
deodorant.

Fragrant? Fish are used to make soap.

Ooh la-la! The average French person uses two bars of soap a year.

If you truley do enjoy the bathroom readers and are not just trying to sell a book, than I suggest anything written by Richard Zachs. Look him up, espically his underground education. That ones pretty good.