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    Fast Facts: Aug. 25

    If you live an average life span, you’ll spend about six months on the toilet.

    Most toilets flush in E flat.

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

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

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

    Alaska has more outhouses then any other state.

    The first stall in a public restroom is usually the cleanest. Seeking privacy, most people skip it.

    Farting contests were held in ancient Japan. Prizes were awarded for loudness and duration.

    There are 34 bathrooms in the White House.

    The first American to have plumbing installed in his home was Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, in 1840.

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