We use them every day, and by the time we live a long full life we will have spend over 2 years of our lives sitting on them. But really, when is the last time you thought about the history of toilets? Most likely never, which is why this book exists to tell the fantastic stories of how human excrements have been handled in societies past and present.
From gross-out details like Romans sharing sea sponges to wipe their behinds to Mongols catapulting buckets of waste over city walls, A Stinky History of Toilets describes how human ingenuity sought (sometimes poorly) to overcome a massive and stinking waste problem. Filled with fun (and disgusting) facts, like the average human produces 24,320 pound of poop during their lifetime, the early toilets were prone to explode, and most mammals, regardless of size, take about 12 seconds to void their insides, this book will fascinate, spark some thinking, and perhaps induce vomiting, but all in the name of learning!
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