Interesting Facts About Bathrooms

While the men’s room look messier and may smell much worse, in fact, the ladies room harbors twice as much bacteria – thanks to the urinal.

When you use a public bathroom, bear in mind that you should wash your hand after you flush. A public restroom can have up to 42,000 germs per square inch.

Remember to close the lid before you flush. This is because when flushing feces become airborne. This is also the reason why your toothbrush should be kept as far as possible.

Paper towel decreases hand bacteria by about 29% while a hand dryers increase it by about 162%. This is because the hand blower takes the air in the bathroom and blow it onto your hands with the bacteria on it.

A toilet uses more water than any other appliance in our home. In the U.S. about 43% of homes there have two or more bathrooms and about 18% of their homeowners clean and scrub their shower in the nude.

Every year, Americans use 400 million tubes of toothpaste. About 40% of people squeeze the toothpaste tubes from the middle.

Every year, about 7 million cell phones are dropped in the toilet. People have flushed down the toilet things like socks, false teeth, goldfish, shoes, shirts, bras, underwear, hamsters, mice, toy cars, Barbie dolls, toothbrushes, action figures, and whole rolls of toilet paper.

Most people cant differentiate between private bathrooms and en-suite bathrooms:
Ensuite – Your own shower/bath and toilet accessed from WITHIN your room.
Private – Your own shower/bath and toilet accessed from OUTSIDE your room.
Jack and Jill bathroom (also referred to as shared bathroom) is a bathroom that is sandwiched between two bedrooms and can only be accessed from either bedroom.