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Jan 2025
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Donny Talks About Toilets

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We've had maybe a dozen submissions from people who reached out to us with questions about public restrooms. Specifically: why are they designed so poorly? And how gross are they actually? Alex and Hyperfixed Producer Amor Yates investigate.

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LINKS:

Toilet: The Public Restroom and the Politics of Sharing.

The American Restroom Association

The Germ Files: The Surprising Ways Microbes Can Improve Your Health and Life (and How to Protect Yourself from the Bad Ones)

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