Don’t poo-poo this headline news.
There’s a reason public toilets are equipped with U-shaped seats as opposed to the O-shaped ones you’d find on your porcelain throne at home.
The general public has long speculated that the horseshoe shape could be for hygiene purposes — so that you don’t come into contact with someone else’s bodily fluids or where their sensitive body parts touched — or that the urine might erode the porcelain. Some have even posited that the open-front seat accommodates various body shapes and sizes that the closed seat just cannot.
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