1. The longest dump ever verified was produced by an American, who produced a 'staggering turd' over a period of 2 hr 12 minutes which was officially measured at 12 ft 2in. The offender is banned from 134 washrooms in his state.

2. Bernard Clemmens of London managed to sustain a fart for an officially recorded time of 2 minutes, 42 seconds.

3. 72.4% of people place their toilet paper on the roll forward (with the loose end over the roll, towards the user).

4. The visitors at Yellowstone Park create 270 million gallons of waste per year, and use up to 18 rolls of toilet paper, per toilet, per day!

5. One of the most difficult items for sewage workers to handle, as it is insoluble, yet fine enough to pass through most filtration systems, is pubic hair. Every month Thames Water removes over a ton of pubic hair at its water treatment plants, whereupon it is taken away to a landfill site and buried.

6. 98% of all Americans feel better about themselves when they flush a toilet.

7. About a third of all Americans flush the toilet while they're still sitting on it.

8. In the USA - more toilets flush at the half time of the Super Bowl than at any other time of the year.

9. A Kimberly-Clark marketing survey on bathroom habits finds that when it comes to toilet paper, women are "wadders" and men are "folders."

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