The following trivbit is from http://www.independent.ie/travel/travel-advice/ dont-kiss-the-girlfriend-in-dubai-dont-flush-a-swiss-loo-after-10pm-and-whatever-you-do-dont-insult-the-thai-king-50357.html
The Toilet Police...
If you fail to flush the toilet in Singapore, you can be fined $150 (€113).
The following trivbit is from http://www.mundayweb.com/weirdlaws.php
I'll lift a leg to that...
In Britain a male may urinate in public, so long as it is on the rear wheel of his motor vehicle, and his right hand is on the vehicle.
The following trivbit is from http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2007/06/855000_phones_dropped_in_uk_to.html#more
The sewers are alive... with the sound of ringing!
Did you know 855,000 phones are flushed down the toilet every year in the UK?
That's both true and ridiculous. SimplySwitch, a price comparison site that apparently services the UK, came up with this number.
How many people are in the UK? 60.7 million? That's about 1.5% of the population that actually flushed their phones down the toilet.
Other interesting stats: 315,000 are lost in a taxi, 225,000 on buses, 58,500 to dogs, and 116,000 in the laundry. All this phone loss is probably why the cellphone industry is doing so well -- Jason Chen.
The following trivbit is from http://www.bog-standard.org/pupils_terrific.aspx
Where the vampires go to piss!
Reading, England has a pop-up urinal called the UriLift. It cost £17,850 (approximately $9,000 U.S.). The UriLift pops up between 9 and 10 in the evening, and goes back down around 6 in the morning. Underground, it is connected to water pipes and electricity. It has an automatic flushing and cleaning system, so nobody ever needs to come and clean it.
The following trivbit is from A History of the Embossed Toilet
A myth debunked!
Of all the pioneers in the development of the modern toilet, Thomas Crapper's name has remained in the public mind although he really didn't make any significant advancement in style or technology. His company still exists and manufactures one of his original washdown waterclosets.
The following trivbit is from http://www.spiegel.de/international/0,1518,406547,00.html
See the world!
It's a design oddity so disturbing that American author Erica Jong saw fit to remark on it in her 1973 erotic novel "Fear of Flying." She writes: "Just go into any German toilet and you'll find a fixture unlike any other in the world. It has a cute little porcelain platform for the shit to fall on so you can inspect it before it whirls off into the watery abyss, and there is, in fact, no water in the toilet until you flush it. As a result German toilets are the shitiest-smelling toilets anywhere."
The following 2 trivbits are from http://www.1800anytyme.com/blog/fun-plumbing-facts/48/
When it comes to laying pipe -- nothing ever changes...
Copper piping, which is the #1 material used for plumbing work in today’s world, is the same material that the Egyptians used to lay their own pipe -- some 3000 years ago!
Goodbye pennies...
Since 1963 (the year Copper Development Association (CDA) was established), more than 28 billion feet or about 5.3 million miles of copper plumbing have been installed in U.S. buildings. That’s equivalent to a coil wrapping around the earth more than 200 times. The current installation rate now exceeds 1 billion feet per year.
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